Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Place de Tertre a U. S.- tourist-jammed, see-Montmarte-by-night charabanc was mobbed. Many a Knox hat was stove in. Many a pair of Hickok suspenders gave way. Havoc. . . . But no serious injuries...
...reported whether the "No climbing" placard was due to the Tibetans' fear of "the hairy men," malignant creatures who they believe once lurked high up on Everest, descending at times on the villages to wreak havoc, steal women and yaks, slaughter men; or whether the lamas, who are so humane that they will not molest lice and other creatures that take refuge on their bodies, could not bear to have any more human lives endangered and sacrificed on that gaunt tooth of Asia that white men are so perplexingly anxious to ascend. On the third and last expedition, which came...
...Wreaked Havoc...
...even in that respect, the change would not cause tremendous havoc. The present dormitory groupings, the present tutorial system, the practical system; all these are easily adaptable to the smaller colleges. Thus this section of the Committee's report is no idle vaporism or Pla tonle impossibility. It is a sane suggestion of offering a practical panacea for present ills. That it has novelty, one can easily agree. But that the novelty dwindles to insignificance before the sanity and sufficiency of its conception, one must surely admit. In this section of the report, the Committee has certainly...
...well known. Where insects are introduced into a foreign country they often prove very destructive because there are usually in that country no parasites to prey on them. This, you know, was the case of the Gypsy Moth. This month was introduced from Europe, and has wreaked great havoc upon the trees here in the east...