Word: leaderlessness
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...sure, however, who should replace Westwood. Leaderless and feuding, the party was also quarreling about what to do with the McGovern campaign's various lists of contributors and voters identified by their political preferences. McGovern insisted that one such file of 600,000 names "belongs to me-it's a personal list." McGovern regional workers outside Washington feared that handing their lists over to regular local party organizations might mean that they would never be able to have access to the names again. "These files are the only remaining fruits of our labors," explained Ronnie Brooks, McGovern...
...coming weeks--and indeed for the coming year--Norway may be, in effect, leaderless. Certainly the legitimacy of those in leadership positions will be questioned. If the anti-Marketeers actually form a Government (resigning Prime Minister Brattell will ask that his Center Party predecessor, Mr. Borten, make the attempt), that Government will represent considerably less than one-third of the Parliament. But no other alternative seems possible if neither Labor nor the Conservatives are prepared to refute their prereferendum positions and pledges...
Tacit Approval. Undisciplined and virtually leaderless, the Tartans roam the streets of Belfast eying strangers with suspicion, occasionally attacking Catholics with sticks, stones and fists. This month Tartan gangs set fire to stores, wrecked bars and rioted in East Belfast for four consecutive nights. In another era, the Tartan gangs would be written off as adolescents bored with the drabness of back-street Belfast, much like Teddy boys of London in the mid-'50s. But Ulster's political chaos has turned them into defenders of the faith who have the tacit approval of many adult Protestants...
Women's groups at Harvard are amoeboid: they proliferate by fattening and subdivide spontaneously. The groups take pride in their lack of structure, so that it is difficult to isolate specific organizers. "We are leaderless," said Susan Cole '74, active in Radcliffe Women to Keep Mind and Body Together. Questioned about their activities, each member adds links to a long chain of referrals by naming three or four others who can provide information. Gone is the competition which predominates wherever one can vie for political position...
There is, for a start, Russia's General Boris Sheremetev, who panicked when he was attacked by Charles XII of Sweden in the battle of Narva (1700). Sheremetev made a dash to safety with his entourage across the Narva River; in consequence, more than 1,000 of his leaderless troopers were swept over a waterfall and drowned...