Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly so absurd a character, so warped and inadequate a mind, despite its coldblooded political discernment, could not in so short a time have worked such universal havoc if it had not embodied forces of evil in the world far greater than itself...
...Werewolf Song did not sound silly to the Nazis. Even in defeat, they said, the new underground Werewolf movement "will have the satisfaction of causing havoc among occupation authorities and chaos in the heart of Europe...
...This havoc was created not by a demolition squad, but by three nine-year-old boys. On a Sunday afternoon they broke into Brooklyn's Public School 173 by cutting a window screen, rampaged until suppertime. When the janitor arrived next morning, he found windows shattered, pictures torn, walls smeared, light bulbs smashed, desks and chairs ripped apart, a grand piano stripped of keys and strings, the remnants of two bonfires, the leavings of crackers and jam in a domestic science kitchen, a total of 21 classrooms in shambles. The damage-which added...
...broadcaster thus described the havoc wrought by last fortnight's great B-29 fire raid on the Japanese capital. U.S. airmen gave much of the credit to a new type of incendiary bomb called...
...June Havoc, blonde, scene-stealing Broadway musicomedienne, invited to a destroyer launching by Navy Lieut. George Gay Jr.-only survivor of Midway-famed Torpedo Squadron 8-gaily stole the Navy's show. The ship had hardly been christened H. J. Ellison (in honor of the Squadron 8 hero) when June turned to her host and cried: "George, I love you so much!" George blushingly admitted to reporters that June was his "girl...