Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willing sources, the papers fell back on man-in-the-street interviews and unsubstantiated rumors from "reliable Swedish sources." Almost alone the Hearst papers made a try at spine-chilling; the New York Journal-American ran a half-page picture showing Manhattan engulfed in atomic "waves of death and havoc." Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association dug up an "exclusive" story: RUSSIA HAS 4 ATOM PLANTS. (N.E.A. got the tip from an "escaped Soviet industrial official.") The New York World-Telegram's scareheads on the story overshadowed advice at the bottom of the page, which most...
When DDT was first sprayed on large areas to kill insect pests, some naturalists issued grisly warnings that the poison would "upset the balance of nature" causing all sorts of unpredictable havoc. It was better, they argued, to pass up DDT and let natural balances rule the swamps and forests...
...soon as possible." He warned that if Socialism causes Britain's economic collapse, "we shall carry many other nations with us into chaos and Communism." He refurbished a famous Churchill-ism for use against the Laborites: "Never before in the history of human government has such great havoc been wrought by such small...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Of Mice and Men, with Burgess Meredith and June Havoc...
...such stuff as this that overconfidence is made, and overconfidence can wreak just as much havoc in crew as elsewhere in the realm of sport. Add to this the fact that BU, which has had the whole-hearted backing of the metropolitan press all spring, is definitely out to prove themselves in this race, and you have a potential source of danger...