Word: disarrayed
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...million extravaganza, ran afoul of an overweening zeal on the part of an employee well down the ladder of power. There were 300 placard bearers on the field trying to rehearse, and at the oddest moments an automatic sprinkler system would click on and reduce their practice to drippy disarray. At last the producer located a workman whose raiment included an enormous ring of jangling keys. The key holder was intractable at the start: "Watering that field is just as important to us as the opening ceremonies are to you." Some mean words later, Wolper prevailed. "I just made...
...contras have not yet managed to take and hold a single Nicaraguan town. Their disarray was illustrated by the arrival in Washington of Pastora, who has been leading a group of contras fighting in southern Nicaragua from bases in Costa Rica. The CIA in May threatened to cut off aid to Pastora's group, hoping to force it to unite with the northern contras, a group Pastora has shunned because it includes former members of the hated National Guard. While Pastora was recuperating from injuries received in a bombing five weeks ago, his fellow rebels voted to join forces...
...Strike, enough officers to lead the ground troops into Cambodia. Nor did our protests put the war-makers in imminent peril. When the War finally stopped, those in control were faced not by a militant alliance of the forces of dissent, but rather by students and Panthers in considerable disarray...
...lead to greater diplomatic leaps. Reagan's political advisers hope that they will dispel the growing perception that the President is too rigid in dealing with the Soviets and unable to choose between his feuding advisers. But the aging leaders in the Kremlin, plagued by their own internal disarray, show little desire to see these vague hopes fulfilled-at least not in a year when Ronald Reagan is running for reelection. -By William R. Doerner. Reported by Douglas Brew and Johanna McGeaty/Washington
...resistance must finally yield to his astonishing, youthful 33-year-old's confidence. What has arrived on Broadway is, assuredly, a classic of the modern theater. And one leaves it not with a sense of relief at a cultural duty properly discharged, but in that state of disarray and wonder that occurs when artists actually manage to act on the poet's simple, hard advice and ' 'make it new.'' -By Richard Schickel