Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas A20 (Boston or Havoc)-a light (two-engine, air-cooled) bomber widely used by the British in the European and Egyptian theaters. Flexible in its performance, it has also been employed with modifications as a heavy fighter. It is unquestionably one of the best in its class...
...Profane. The strongest impression communicated by December 7 is that the Japanese attack, coming when it did, calculated to stun and sicken the people by outraging the season that stands for a symbol of peace, to wreak the maximum psychological havoc by undoing a time so beloved and gracious, unleashed emotions with which both the friends and enemies of democracy will have to reckon in the future. There was a telephone call to a Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed...
...sensitive understatement and more good humor than most Hollywood comedies achieve, Director Wyler sustains this warm chronicle of everyday tranquillity through the early days of the war and the bombing of London. With reticence, good taste, and an understanding of events, he reflects the war's global havoc without ever taking his cameras off the Minivers' quiet corner of England...
...died silently, bitterly, in remote spots where history might never note the glory of their end. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell's force, cut off in the bowels of Burma, came out of its position with a rush, jammed into the Jap communication lines above Mandalay and made havoc. Some of the Jap forces swung back to meet him, and there, by a strange cyclic development, Japanese fought toward the south and Chinese toward the north...
...store, Reginald Pinkerton learned to fear housewives. He willingly fought through all of World War I, a man's affair. Then he took a job as a bank clerk in Argentina, where woman's place is in the home. Returning to England in 1926, he "observed the havoc that the Feminine Invasion was creating," conceived the idea of the National Men's Defense League to "combat the menace...