Word: leaderlessness
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...Hungary a gallant, leaderless rebellion against Russia's iron rule gave promise of success-until Russia turned its retreating tanks around and set out to crush the revolt...
...McManus contended that "the man who lambasted Jimmy Carter for $200 billion in federal red ink after four years now presides over that much deficit in a single year. Conservatives who still believe in the truth of Ronald Reagan's government is the problem' have been humiliated and rendered leaderless...
...secret visit. I rejected the idea out of hand and without checking with Nixon. Golda's leaving while a major battle was going on would be a sign of such panic that it might bring in all the Arab states still on the sidelines. It would leave Israel leaderless when Golda's dauntless courage was most needed. (I learned after the war that at this very moment some senior Israeli ministers were recommending a withdrawal deep into the Sinai...
...spent two months trying to erase an impression that the U.S. had elected Ed Meese President, instead of Ronald Reagan. Now we are almost going back to the point of say ing that this Administration does not need him." Compared with the potential dangers of a leaderless Government, how ever, that is a minor worry indeed...
...Kuttner concludes with an almost mournful plea to learn from our mistakes; the problem is that so far only the Right has transformed the failures of the Great Society into an agenda for the '80s. Americans committed to social justice mow face the future leaderless, devoid of new ideas and without a working-class base of support. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a man conspicuous in his absense from Kuttner's book is fond of saying, "the flame may flicker, but the danger dream will never die." Yet the flame is in danger without the fuel of new ideas and vision...