Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well disbelieve in the rearmament program, and advocate a policy of military and spiritual isolation. War was remote; it might well have seemed incredible to many that distant nations could have designs on our economic and institutional integrity. Although "unofficial" agencies in Germany, Italy and Japan lovingly described the havoc which was planned for the American nation-now agents of the world-wide German revolution had been working for years in preparation for disrupting and devastating civil war which would be ignited at an appropriate time-truly patriotic men might have preferred to believe "responsible" and "official" professions made...
...because no totalitarianism feels safe until it is liquidated, is the questioning human mind. "Europe today is faced with something that has never occurred in its history, except perhaps in the darkest period of confusion after the fall of the Roman Empire: the disappearance of its intelligentsia. The havoc among the older generation of the educated classes has been frightful. . . . But it is the outlook for the future that is darkest. . . . The youth ... is being brought up to act mechanically, not to think; to shout, not to reflect; to respond like trained animals to definite stimuli. ... A revolution of moral...
...European nations as well. He is fond of comparing nations and their diseases to humans and their allments. "In some, national discase manifests itself mainly in lethargy, stagnation, and general debility. In others, unfortunately, it takes the form of frenzy, and the entire state rums amok wreaking world wide havoc...
After having played havoc with the best seller lists when he wrote "Inside Europe" and "Inside Asia," John Gunther might well be expected to crash through with another attempt to get "inside" some place or other. And that is exactly what he's done in "Inside Latin America," a racy and thoroughly informative sketch of Latin America, plays Puerto Rico and Trinidad...
...hundred to one that he's the mysterious prankster "Jeeves" hired by your hostess to amaze and dismay the guests. Jeeves has been an institution in the Harvard Employment bureau as long as people remember. Sometimes, on busy weekends, there are even two or three such cavorting "servants" raising havoc at affairs ranging from quiet little home dinners to giant hotel men's dinners...