Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good ski weather, had despaired of the unseasonable warmth. There, the choking Staublawinen (dust avalanches), which literally drown their victims in a rush of dry, powdery snow, and the hurtling Rutschlawinen (slide avalanches), which bury their victims under sliding tons of packed snow, ice and boulders, wrought fearful havoc...
...medical student has long been the but of many a cliche-ridden joke. He is red-eyed and unshaven from study, they say, and he wreaks havoc with the curves in courses like Biology I and medical schools which forces him to spend long hours in grinding study...
...granules on .to the back shelves. Among the hardest hit was P. & G.'s own Oxydol, long a top national seller with the devoted followers of Ma Perkins. Distressed at their falling sales, Oxydol men scurried to the P. & G. research people who had caused all the havoc by their development of Tide. Could they do something for Oxydol? No soap, said the research department; detergents are the coming thing. Well, then, how about letting Oxydol in on the bonanza? President McElroy agreed, and the product was converted. "New Detergent Oxydol" has since climbed back to fourth place among...
...member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, the elder Hearst received advance word of the surrender of Geronimo, the Apache chief whose periodic raids into the Babicora region had caused havoc among the ranchers. Before the news got out, he was able to buy several hundred thousand acres at 20? an acre...
...dramatization of an episode from Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. Others have included The Man Who Liked Dickens, starring Claude Rains, a prettied-up version of Evelyn Waugh's story of a lost explorer held captive by an illiterate half-breed, and Mrs. Union Station, a farce starring June Havoc. The show may have better luck this week with Charles Ruggles in an adaptation of Richard Harding Davis' The Consul. The commercials plug a different Chrysler Corp. car each week...