Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall always respect war hereafter. The cost of life, the dreary havoc of comfort and time, are overpaid by the vistas it opens of eternal life, eternal law, reconstructing and uplifting society-breaks up the old horizon and we see through the rifts a wider vista."-R. W. Emerson: Letter to Thomas Carlyle, Sept...
Surprising as was the havoc wrought along Pearl Harbor's battleship row, there were other eyebrow-raising items in the Navy's long-awaited report...
...leading part, however, is far from the ideal, and even farther from the script. Russell E. Offhans, "known to New England radio audiences as 'Farmer Russ'"; does his best, but he is completely miscast. His peculiar delivery has played havoc with the supposedly swift pace of the play...
...only on the battlefields of the world did democracy seem to be on the run. At home, there was bungling of the manpower, problem, of the gas and oil mixup, of racial disputes, of censorship and news dispensation. In Congress, politics played havoc with such measures as the lowered draft age and the tax bills. On the education front, college officials raised their voices in a pleading chorus crying for a blueprint from the War Manpower Commission, and Washington answered with equal vehemence that the job should be done by the colleges. Enticing reserve plans were set up by every...
...issue on what goes on in Indiana University is enough to whet the propaganda pencil of any Axis spokesman. If LIFE's editors are to be listened to, students in our colleges are having a riot of a time making pick-ups in libraries, wearing zoot suits, and playing havoc with the sanity of their professors...