Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never to retreat except to resume formation, never to worry about food, fuel, ammunition supply, which would be sent forward to them in due time. Should a Panzer column reach an impasse, its duty was to fan out in all directions, like an exploding projectile: to play havoc upon railroads, telegraph, telephone, power, gas and water lines...
...able-bodied adult males, 1,600,000 are under arms. Their mobilization postponed last autumn's plowing; their presence in the Army has caused a farm-labor shortage this spring. Bitter winter and spring floods have combined with these war-brought conditions to play havoc with Rumania's wheat crop. Instead of a normal export surplus of $20,000,000 worth, this year's surplus is expected to be little more than half that. And Germany, which last year got $8,000,000 worth of the crop, this year wants $10,000,000 worth. If Rumania will...
LONDON -- Royal Air Force reconnaissance planes flew back from the island of Sylt today with photographic evidence of havoc created by wave after wave of British bombers in a six-hour bombardment of the German air base...
...spite of all the loving care Britons have spent on their pets, war has played havoc in the United Kingdom of Animals. In the early days, London Zoo was closed for the first time in no years. When the Zoo's poisonous snakes had to be killed (to prevent their getting loose in air raids), keepers, some of whom had spent 25 years with reptiles, wept unashamed. After partial evacuation, the Zoo was reopened, but animals' hardships grew. When fish became scarce, penguins and sea lions had to gag down meat faked to seem fishy with a coating...
...sort of havoc that might well have been created by a first-class shower of Nazi bombs of the type Poland had last September. Actually, it was caused by a Blitzkrieg of the elements. What gave it additional martial atmosphere was that nowadays British weather is a military secret. The censor-fearing London newspapers carried no weather news at all in a spell of such weather as had not been seen in the Isles for 46 years. Hush-hushed was the fact that the British capital was covered with snow, that snowdrifts twelve feet high were piled...