Word: leaderless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loud-speaking of Senator Couzens raised the temperature in the Finance Committee room but nothing was done to discipline him. Just as the opinion began to spread out of Washington that the Republicans framing the tariff bill were demoralized by the heat and the problem before them and, leaderless, were voting every which way, it was announced that the new cooling system in the Senate had been completely installed, that the equivalent of 350,000 lb. of ice per day would be "melted" to keep that chamber comfortable and steady its occupants' wobbly nerves, when the Senate reassembles...
...Vicente Gomez been Dictator-President of Venezuela that when he positively and repeatedly refused to circumvent his country's constitution "just once more" and accept a fourth term (TIME, May 13), the Venezuelan Congress knew not what to do. Visions of impending revolution, rapine and pillage beset the leaderless legislators. Bundling into motor busses, they rode out again last week from Caracas to Maracay, where the old Dictator, now 72, holds court on his model farm, a Latin-American George Washington at a tropical Mt. Vernon. Seated under his favorite rubber tree, the blue-spectacled Dictator listened to flattering...
Last week saw U. S. symphonies definitely launched on a new season, saw conductors back from Europe with new music and sharpened batons, saw stormy rehearsals and brilliant first nights. Many bridges had been crossed since last spring. Orchestras had been left leaderless, some penniless. Deficits had been threateningly announced; in a few dire cases, cleared. New leaders had been imported, borrowed. The situation...
...death leaves leaderless the Wafd, Nationalistic Party. Though his methods may be criticized, he stood as the very symbol of modern Egypt, the Father of a country that had not known freedom since Cleopatra was bitten...
...Menshevik Kerensky was present in Petrograd** when there began a curiously leaderless and random series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery. Between March 8 and March 12 these leaderless disorders reached such a pitch that the Duma found the Tsarist authority had vanished and set up a Temporary Governing Committee which two days later became the Cabinet of Prince Lvov in which M. Kerensky was Minister of Justice. Next day representatives of the Duma obtained the abdication of the Tsar. Russians were all but stupefied that the Tsarist regime was so rotten at the core...