Word: disarrayed
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...apprehension in the air. "In this difficult time for our party and country," said Moscow Radio, "the most important task of the party and the government [is] to ensure the uninterrupted and correct leadership of the whole life of the country . . and the prevention of any kind of disarray and panic...
...unnecessary drinks in the bartender's manual-a frivolous combination of liqueurs and cognacs, one poured gingerly atop the other to avoid blending them together. Each ingredient forms one bar in a rainbow of alcoholic chaos, each flavor nullifying the taste of the next, all falling into murky disarray if jiggled by a shaky hand. The Assembly is the pousse café of parliament...
...Puddin'! Sugar Puddin'!" sang a husky feminine voice from the bedroom. A moment later Jane Barkley, a full-blown figure of a woman in scarlet housecoat, her hair in disarray, burst on to the side porch. "Look," she said, "I've got Mamie Eisenhower's bangs." Alben Barkley rose from his chair, tilted his wife's tousled head in his big hands, and smiled. "Well," he said, "you're prettier than...
...nuns in the convent of the Little Company of Mary in Rome pad very softly past a certain room these days. Inside that airy corner room, filled with the neat disarray of an old bachelor's belongings, a fragile, black-eyed old man with one of the most far-ranging minds of the 20th Century is recovering from an annoying bout with the flu. In his 88th year, Philosopher George Santayana takes his ailments philosophically. His many would-be visitors feel them more keenly. Formerly host to every sensitive traveler with a metaphysical bee in his Baedeker, Santayana...
Sargent's central intelligence bureau for his campaign against Harvard is a three story Colonial Brookline house which he calls the "factory." Here Sargent compiles, writes, and edits his own material, surrounded by a near-impenetrable disarray of books, papers, old manuscripts, and two harrassed secretaries...