Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havoc! In San Diego, Bus Driver Harlan Frank Beers, 28, was finally locked up for making false reports after he had repeatedly called the police and fire departments in a single day to announce that 1) three men had slugged him with an ax and tied him to the steering post of his bus, 2) he had received a threatening note demanding $25,000, and 3) his house was on fire...
...think our society is stable or mature enough not to be taken in by the quasi-sophistication of the film. Condoning marital infidelity in a humorous vein may go by the boards as fun but please consider the subsequent anguish, mistrust, and havoc it may provoke in the hearts of many married men and women. A RADCLIFFIAN--CLASS...
...international conference of atomic scientists in Geneva last summer, many charges were made that the age of nuclear fission might introduce an age of freaks and monsters. Ingalls replied yesterday that "Hydrogen bombs can cause such direct havoc to a whole population by their direct effects, that little is to be gained at this point by concentrating on the speculation that the impact is to be measured in mutations and inheritable monstrosities...
Some Western observers thereupon cried havoc. The cold war was on again; the leopard had not changed his spots; the fat was in the fire, and, said one liberal U.S. commentator, the defense budget should be immediately increased as a result of the failure of the second Geneva conference. The observers most downcast by the failures of Geneva II were those who, forgetting the essential limitation Eisenhower had placed upon it, had exaggerated Geneva...
...Peak. Behind the swirling clouds of political dust that surrounded the farm situation, it was possible to locate and nail down some solid economic facts. Pieced together, they produced a picture of U.S. agriculture that bore little resemblance to the scene of despair conjured up amid cries of havoc...