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Word: havoc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem stems from the fact that the Bruins have five left-handed batters in their lineup. The southpaw-slugging outfield plus two lefty infielders have wreaked havoc among Eastern League right-handed pitchers this season. So far Brown has split two close contests with Rhode Island and over-ridden the University of Connecticut, Holy Cross, Pennsylvania, and Yale...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: McInnis Will Start Donelan Or Ward in Brown Contest | 5/2/1951 | See Source »

...innovator. Monetary catastrophes are as old as-money. Famine is but an old curse revived. Hitler's and Stalin's labor camps have done no more than renew the worst forms of ancient slavery. Atheism and superstition nourished in Rome of the decadence. The pacifist illusion wrought havoc in Hellas. State control and socialism were known in Egypt under the Pharaohs, in Peru under the Incas. The dictatorships of the 20th Century take the mind back to the Greek tyrannies, which were built on popular support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Capsule History | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

Mildred, who, even as a tubercular, was played with bumptious enthusiasm by Cloris Leachman. As the clubfooted Philip, Tom Helmore seemed wooden-faced and without passion. Nearly as much drama was packed into the commercials (Tintair), which starred June Havoc, Joyce Mathews and a model who triumphantly completed dyeing her mouse-blonde hair to brunette while Maugham's characters were struggling to their happy ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...only other meet in which Harvard entered as a team was the Middlebury Carnival. A glazed trail raised havoc with the Harvard skiers, with no one escaping falls. The other teams were able to keep on their skis somewhat better, forcing the Crimson to eighth place out of the nine teams entered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Struggle Under Handicaps; Coach Builds Freshman Program | 3/7/1951 | See Source »

...sirs, I am a married man. I love my wife. And I got one of those postcards. I did not like it--not a bit. Didn't those girls realize what havoc such an invitation could create in an otherwise happy home? Families have been broken up by less than this, a direct attempt by a group of women to entice away one of the mates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 2/10/1951 | See Source »

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