Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There will probably be a war between Japan and Russia this spring," said Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON. "If there is a war, Japan, and not Russia, will start it, because the Russians realize that it would play havoc with their economic plans to get embroiled in a war. Russia can't afford to fight but Japan will force her to do so because she wants to safeguard her position in Manchuria. It is hard to tell what the objectives of such a struggle would be. Japan may be trying...
...particular accusation is not known, but the history of this and other armament firms would hold them guilty until proved without any question, innocent. Last summer Beverley Nichols turned his whimsical attention from the subtleties and aesthetic delights of gardening to the pastime of war, and his book "Cry Havoc," was the result. In several chapters there he points out with deserving bitterness the irony involved when British soldiers were smeared all along the Dardenelles by British-made guns sold to the Turkish government, when Germany and France exchange arms shipments through Switzerland during the war, or when revolutions...
...Their combined clamor is so deafening that it is hard to tell when one of them is really in earnest. Consequently, in those blue moons when they have something to shout about, a sharp-toothed masterpiece may slip undetected into the gentle reader's fold, cause much silent havoc before the alarm is given. Though Publisher Dutton has sounded no extra-special warning, Solal is such a masterpiece-in-sheep's-clothing. Wolf would be a misnomer: nothing so leonine has come down the pike in many a blue moon...
...know. One is continually hearing that the Depression is a great teacher of youth. Yet it is just as obvious, and almost as trite, to observe that the Depression is worse than war or pestilence in the way it takes educational opportunities away from youth and raises havoc with students and teachers alike...
...snatched moments from household tasks and village society, has begun to sell; a Career dawns. When the children are away at school she takes a flat in London, ventures into literary society, even attends a Literary Conference at Brussels. Between whiles she struggles gamely against the never-ending havoc of domesticity. At the end she is, as usual, looking for a cook, but next year, she says, she would like...