Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...benefit of the few people who missed "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" when it made its first appearance in Boston about five months ago, the U.T. has brought the picture back to Cambridge on a bill with one of last year's disappointments, "Cry Havoc...
...Havoc," when it appeared on the West Coast as a play, had a dramatic idea. The notion of throwing people together and then dooming them, while not new, was most timely, and the character portraits were finely drawn. The show ran eight months...
...although in sports we are a little short on reserves, he said. The defense is fair, he added, and the pitching, sparked by Jack Wallace, is promising, though largely inexperienced. Hitting, however, has been rather weak so far; that is his biggest worry to date. The weather has wreaked havoc with his practice sessions, but otherwise he believes the team has been coming along pretty well...
...Laeken Castle, 42-year-old King Leopold has kept his title but has refused to govern. Belgian courts have stubbornly refused to cater to the Nazis, and have kept the prewar judicial system pretty well intact (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943). Nazi exploitation and expropriation have presumably played havoc with Belgium's interior economy, left the true ownership of many properties in doubt. But even this factor-a specter of disintegration which overhangs all Europe-did not seem to worry Premier Pierlot. Comfortably, he recalled that Belgium still has her rich African Congo, now aboom with wartime demands...
Even discounting some of these Russian claims, the booty captured by the Reds was obviously enormous. Booty and prisoners are the evidence that a drive has not merely captured territory but played havoc with the enemy's army. With 'sev eral compartments of the Ukraine still only partly flooded, the possibility of more booty and prisoners was still promising...