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Word: havoc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anyone with any sense at all knows that if we had not gone into Iceland, the Nazis would have, and would have wrought havoc by air attacks on our North Atlantic shipping routes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Author Boyer has hit upon a powerful idea for suggesting the havoc that war can leave in children's minds, but he has hardly done more than suggest it. Writing with an economy that amounts to sparseness, he comes closer to achieving a fine scenario than a fine novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Stole Crosses | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...Ready Squads." The Russians, who well remember the havoc wrought by Hitler's Panzer divisions, have worked mightily at tank production, now have more tanks in service than the rest of the world's armies combined. In Germany alone, the Reds have at least 4,400 tanks, and in general they are better than any now in regular use by U.S. armored divisions. Most of the tanks in East Germany are 33-ton T-34s null gun), the types used in the Communist attack in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Order of Battle | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Almost equaling their runaway in the mud against Boston College two weeks ago, Crimson contestants took first in ten of the 16 events. Rain wreaked havoc, as usual, with weight and field marks, but the mire that bogged down the visitors didn't seem to bother Harvard runners...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Track Team Beats Holy Cross, B.U. | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Unfortunately this sort of vehicle plays havoc with the amateur talent recruited from the fishing people of Stromboli. While Bergman ably throws herself about sobbing "I'm going mad," the rest of the east don't quite know how to play roles requiring emotions they themselves have never experienced...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/18/1950 | See Source »

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