Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British censor passed articles like that of William H. Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News and New York Post: "If it were not for the R.A.F. and the Home Guard, an invading German Army equipped with Panzer divisions and several divisions of infantry could roam England, spreading havoc for at least one week, and at the end of that time could still exist as a fighting unit...
When Lindbergh made his Des Moines speech charging that the British, the Administration and Jews were pushing the U.S. towards war, America Firsters in Chicago did not immediately realize what havoc his words were to unleash. Neither did Lindbergh. He had believed that the President, warming up for his declaration on freedom of the seas, was about to make a speech which might mean war, and he was determined to get in one last word before it was too late to talk...
...second scene was my doctoral oral. For early an hour I wrought havoc among the Indo-European vowels and consonants, like the demented Ajax with the sheep, and though that all was over, Bust across the gloom came a ray of hope in the form of a question from Mr. Kittredge which suggested that the questioner had not yet put on the black...
...small surprise was the work of the Blues' 127 parachutists dropped in Red country. By agreement all were to surrender, if not captured, 20 hours after landing. When the 20 hours expired, more than half of them were still on the loose, slashing wire lines and generally playing havoc with Red communications...
Sirs: Mr. Verne Marshall made the front pages when he joined the other isolationists who, for the last 20 years, have been playing havoc with our foreign policy. The result of these efforts has been the loss of our security, and will be the loss of untold billions of dollars and no telling how many lives. One of Mr. Marshall's friends, Mr. Nolan, disliked the article about him [Marshall] in TIME, so he proceeded to write a letter [TIME, July 21], which did as much good for the isolationists as the protest of a drunken man that...