Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unexpected showers wreaked havoc with the Crimson lacrosse sticks; water shrunk the leather thongs in them and made accurate passing and shooting virtually impossible Still, at halftime the varsity...
...cold-blooded ruthlessness ... I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot . . . His smile of Siberian winter, his carefully-measured and often wise words, his affable demeanor, combined to make him the perfect agent of Soviet policy in a deadly world . . . Havoc and ruin had been around him all his days . . . How glad I am at the end of my life not to have had to endure the stresses which he had suffered; better never be born . . . Sully, Talleyrand, Metternich would welcome him to their company, if there be another world...
Divorced. By Margaret Sullavan, 38, husky-voiced stage (Voice of the Turtle) and screen (Cry Havoc) star: third husband* Leland Hayward, 46, air-minded, airline-owning (Southwest Airways) Broadway producer and actors' agent; after nearly twelve years of marriage, three children; in Los Angeles...
...feet of him, hoisted up his right crutch and whacked him on the shoulder. That about ended the meeting. The committeemen agreed that they would support the regular Democratic nominees after the state's primary on June 1. But until then, Wallace supporters were free to wreak whatever havoc they could...
Song for song, few of Tin Pan Alley's tunesmiths can match the havoc wrought by a gum-chewing Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...