Word: leaderless
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...confident that he knew a thing or two about wartime Washington. After two years on Franklin Roosevelt's mobilization staff, he was wise to the perils of palace politics and political hatchet work. But in Harry Truman's Washington he was soon completely at sea in leaderless confusion. Last week, in a blunt letter to the President (written the day before Truman bowed out as a candidate), Charlie Wilson abruptly quit...
...liberal Republicans, drawn primarily from the eastern and western seaboards, were leaderless, and often disagreed on domestic policy...
Things began to look up for Jim Pendergast after Binaggio was murdered last April. Abruptly leaderless, the old crowd flocked back to Jim. Last week Pendergast made his biggest bid since 1940 for return to power. He lost. The reform group, pointing at the Kefauver committee's disclosures, re-elected Mayor William E. Kemp, an anti-machine Democrat, for his third term; ten of eleven major city offices went to reform candidates. Big, sad Jim Pendergast no longer cast any shadow...
Last June General MacArthur ordered Nozaka, Shiga and 22 other Red leaders expelled from political life. They went underground. Leaderless, the party rank & file began to drift away...
Palestine's native Arabs were panicky, almost leaderless. Outside Palestine, the Arabs were little better prepared. The nations which had brandished the scimitar most fiercely-Syria and Iraq-were obliged to keep a good many troops at home. Iraq, for instance, had hostile Kurds to worry about. Their people were outraged at the prospect of losing part of Palestine after their leaders' boasts and promises. Of the 135,000 soldiers, many of them ill-trained, in the armies of all the Arab states, perhaps 40,000 could be spared for Palestine just now. Even they had arms...