Word: disarrayed
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Drained Votes. Now Giscard's most serious potential rival on the right, Chirac had accused the President of a "soft" attitude toward the left. A bold tactician, Chirac set out to revitalize a Gaullist party that had fallen into disarray and to woo workers from the left. In Paris, Chirac was helped by lackluster opposition candidates for the mayoralty and by a strong showing of candidates running on an ecology platform, who drained votes from the left. In the provinces, however, many of his close political allies were defeated. "Chirac stands like a white knight in Paris," observed...
...Eastern regimes to task for not living up to the Helsinki provisions. When he learned of the statement about Sakharov, Anatoli Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., telephoned Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to protest. That prompted a curious diplomatic minuet that left an impression of some disarray in the State Department...
...every national election since India became independent in 1947. One of the main reasons for this consistent success has been that the opposition parties have long been victimized by ideological differences and widespread disunity. This time the opposition will be further handicapped by a lack of funds and the disarray in its grassroots organizations caused by the prolonged imprisonment of party members and leaders...
...Conn., which became home for the artist's astonishing fecundity. His Roxbury studio resembled a tinker's shop more than some rive gauche atelier; wire and pliers and corrugated cartons filled with the flotsam of a lifetime lay about in splendid I-know-just-where-it-is disarray. There, and in the house near Tours, France, that he acquired in 1953, the sculptor would lumber about, creating a stage set for Martha Graham, fashioning coffee cups for his kitchen, filling a commission for the Brussels World's Fair or New York's International Airport...
...scriptwriter had put it together once again for the United States. In the crisis of Watergate two years ago, Gerald Ford, without flair or ambition, had furnished what the nation needed-solidity, courage, common sense and honor. Ford's stewardship was a welcome change from the decade of disarray that began with the bullet that killed Kennedy. That he thought he should stay longer may have been Ford's biggest mistake. That another term, a prospect he had not considered when he first came to power, was more than the American people wanted to give him was something...