Word: disarrayed
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Hofi admitted that there was still some disarray remaining from the original retreat and that some soldiers had not yet found their units. While the ultimate strategy will be determined in Tel Aviv, Hofi insisted that, "we must bring them to a point which will not produce a cease-fire but a surrender." Air Force Major General Mordechai Hod agreed: "This time we must force them to the peace table. How much we will have to punish them to achieve this is unclear at this point...
Canadians did not like Trudeau's professorial tone, much less the country's economic disarray. The election left his party with only 109 seats, down from 155, leaving Trudeau with a minority government dependent for survival upon the support of the mildly socialist New Democratic Party. Recalls an aide of the postelection weeks: "Pierre brooded, exploded, and shrugged...
...assistant professor of the Afro-American Studies Department said yesterday that his department is in a state of "utter disarray and demoralization" and called for additional tenured faculty to be hired immediately to prevent "an imminent collapse in the department...
...year-old lawyer who took over command of Sweden's biggest industrial concern (annual sales: $1.5 billion) from his father-in-law in January 1973, insisted that his company had been considering the U.S. plant for many months and had not been influenced by the current world monetary disarray. However, Volvo may well profit from the money tangle. As the value of many currencies (including Sweden's krona) has continued to rise against the dollar−and as foreign labor costs have continued to mount−the once huge gap between U.S. and other countries' wages...
...divided and unsettled country. The upheavals of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-69 and the purges that followed the abortive 1971 coup of Army Leader Lin Piao-Chairman Mao Tse-tung's designated successor-denuded the Communist Party's leadership and plunged its bureaucracy into disarray. Since 1971 China has had no head of state, no defense minister, and no army chief. The Central Committee of the Communist Party and the powerful Politburo both have been functioning at half-strength...