Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Canada left them and their escorts from Britain would pick them up. None of them was equipped to fight anything except submarines or armed merchantmen of their own size and speed. If a German pocket battleship-the Admiral S cheer or the Lutzow-was indeed among them, the havoc could only be like that of a wolf in a hen roost. For the raider, armored against the merchantmen's light weapons, would have 11-inch guns, aircraft, torpedo tubes and surpassing speed of 26 knots. Unless they could scatter and escape in bad weather or darkness, the entire...
FOLKESTONE, Eng. (Monday) -- British bombers shuttling in swarms across the Channel at 10-minute intervals heaped havoc upon Adolf Hitler's "invasion ports" last night and early today in the R.A.F.'s most savage assault upon the Nazi-held French coast...
Needless to say, sabotage is a threat. Should construction work fall into the hands of a foreign power, havoc could be wrought behind the fences. By an ingenious system of tunnels, Widener could be drained of every learned periodical this side of the Reading Room. Then, too, the workers in charge might run berserk in their lonely isolation behind the fences and, from force of habit, rear another Weld or Matthews...
...what was once the sitting room of the royal housemaids (see cut, p. 31). From the Palace George VI broadcast this week on a globe-girdling hookup, announced that to reward "worthily and promptly the many and glorious . . . deeds of gallantry" now being done by British civilians amid the havoc of bomb raids His Majesty has created the "George Cross" and the "George Medal...
...were getting in hay for the long winter snows; in Texas they were pitching horseshoes, getting ready for the fall roundup, looking over some of the finest Hereford cattle in the world at an exposition in Marfa in the Big Bend country. In Louisiana, where a Caribbean hurricane spread havoc last month, flooding out rice, breaking sugar cane, killing livestock, cotton picking started last week, the sugar mills tuned up, the first of the State's 47 fairs were opening, and at night the levees were studded with the bright fires of fish fries and shrimp boils...