Word: disarrayed
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...which served them as a powerful corridor between Yenan and Manchuria and a "show window" of policy for all the nation. Not only did they fail to defend this area militarily, but as they fell back before the Government armies they kicked in the show window, leaving a destructive disarray appalling in a nation so economically needy as China...
Seven Nicaraguans in various stages of disarray (one wore a pajama coat) arrived last week in Panama, fugitives from the wrath of Nicaragua's Dictator-President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
...could hardly have been greater. Newspaper advertisements warned women that they faced "a frank return to femininity." Said the ads: FROU FROU BECOMES YOU. In every big U.S. city, black (and transparent) nighties revealed the intimate mechanics of window dummies. Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray. Perfume was a preferred item. Despite staggering price tags ($1,000 foi a 72-oz. jug of Worth's Dans la Nuit), it sold like patent medicine. Customers reached for absurdly priced costume jewelry as eagerly as pygmy tribesmen bartering for trade beads...
Laval devotes much time to his toilet, but he is one of the untidiest political figures on earth. The cigaret drooping from his lip is always stained with spittle. His teeth grew that way. His hair insists on its greasy disarray. His expensive grey suits wrinkle fast over his fleshiness. He often changes his habitual white ties several times a day, but they invariably get smudged. He is a heavy, un-French eater and uses his fingers as a fork, his fork as a toothpick...
...repealer of the Neutrality Act's "neutrality"; that the U.S. had steam up to start convoying its own ships directly across the Atlantic directly into British and Russian ports. The shooting had started, and convoying would mean more shooting. The President knew that around him, in the rolling disarray of marble slabs and granite headstones, there was still room for dead heroes...