Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long. I'm still the D.A.Rling havoc wreaker...
...slice through the historic part of town. The fight-the-highway movement is not unique to Morristown. As the federal government's $41 billion interstate highway program enters its ninth year, more and more citizens are protesting that the road to faster automobile travel is not worth the havoc it often creates in the neighboring countryside...
...that extremists and activists, a small minority of the student body, could capture the HCUA and use it for their own ends. If, as has been suggested, the administration had to specifically reject all HCUA proposals, they could put the administration in a very uncomfortable position and even raise havoc. A college wide election for a president would make equally little sense. We discussed this in 1962 and rejected the idea. The House, not the college as a whole, is the usual focus of most undergraduate life. In an election the average undergraduate would be voting for people outside...
Ehrenburg is at his best when he is simply reporting what he saw. Assigned by Izvestia to cover the Spanish Civil War, he is sharp, biting, witty. He describes how the Anarchists, numbering in the tens of thousands, caused havoc in Republican ranks. Not believing in law, order or discipline, they confiscated all cash in areas they controlled, cut off all medical supplies on the grounds that "nature is a better healer." Ehrenburg showed them Soviet films on proper revolutionary behavior, but the Anarchists laughed in all the wrong places...
...broken pipe under Dunster St. near Kirkland House created a small flood and was raising havoc with the water systems in three Houses yesterday and late last night...