Word: disarrayed
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Looking at the Kremlin's "extraordinary demonstration of despotic disarray" last week. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles observed: "It may well be that the last act of this drama has not yet been played." Dulles had some suggestions that might hasten the final curtain...
...Secretary of the party, at Malenkov's expense? Outside the Kremlin, no one knows. In the months after Stalin's death, it was to the interest of all the jostling little cluster of Soviet leaders to show that there was none of what Malenkov called "panic and disarray." Some executions were inevitable. But significantly, they were all among the secret police: first Lavrenty Beria, Minister for the Interior, pulled down from his high place and shot; then Mikhail Ryumin, Deputy Minister of State Security. Last Christmas Eve it was Viktor Abakumov, former Minister of State Security, and three...
...ghastly sight. Supine on the wall-to-wall carpet lay the master-46-year-old Serge Rubinstein, millionaire, financial finagler, satyr and draft dodger-bound, gagged, strangled and quite dead. The body was dressed in midnight-blue silk pajamas, and the room was a picture of studied disarray...
...strides purposely to his dresser, opens the bottom drawer and carefully extracts his one clean white butten-down oxford shirt. From the mass of wrinkled spotted clothes hanging in massive disarray in the closet, he picks a hanger on which is draped the prized gray flannel. Pawing through a heap of jumbled dusty left shoes, he picks out a pair of glistening cordovans. Finally, on his hands and knees, he crawls under the bed and disentangles a red and gray striped rep from around the bedstead...
When the Navy took over Eliot House during the second World War, Nock was the only person to refuse to move. "I couldn't go anywhere else," he confides, "look around you." On every side of the panelled rooms there are papers, books and the disarray of twenty productive years. It would require at least two decades more to sort through his volumes and the shopping bags crammed with random notations...