Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Primary School Inspector of Paris reported that the nation's teacher and classroom shortage is raising havoc with the French school system: three out of ten pupils in preparatory courses, four out of ten pupils in second-year elementary courses, nearly half (46%) of all nine-to-eleven-year-olds, and up to 75% of those in their final elementary school classes, are at least a year behind their age groups...
Those who sided with the President thought that the uncertainty about U.S. intentions was a lesser evil than the havoc an announcement would create in both strategy and politics. If the President announced his decision, the Communists would have a definite line behind which they would have sanctuary. If the President said that the U.S. will defend the islands, he would immediately be denounced as a warmonger; if he announced the opposite, he would be called an appeaser...
...professors soon grew accustomed to reading blue-book after blue-book with the same questions answered in the same way. Finally faculty members began to take the law into their own hands and one professor emerged from his examination room and announced with satisfaction that his test had "wreaked havoc among cram parlor habituees...
...criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned the tactic of infantry legions, and brought lumbering over the roads from Fort Devens (at the risk of putting a few more kinks in Massachusetts' great new highway system) a tank--a weapon that could wreak more havoc against the enemy than they could possibly do to us. The fact that the warden would not let this weapon within his gates (and, incidentally, that it would not fit through the gates) is, we feel sure, only a temporary problem. We congratulate the forward-looking law enforcers of this Commonwealth...
...boom. The remarkable fact about this surging confidence was that it began to grow at a time when business was slipping. Such doomsayers as British Economist Colin Clark predicted that the U.S. was in for a major depression, and right up until the November election Democrats cried economic havoc. But few really believed them. As industrial production edged down, the market went up-and as it turned out, the market was right...