Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambodia, volatile Prince Norodom Sihanouk declared "civil war" on local Viet Minh and Communist infiltrators from Thailand, who are raising havoc in Battambang province, and accused the Communists of tying up with the subversive Thai Patriotic Front to cause trouble. Normally a soft-pedaler of anti-Communist alarm, Sihanouk finally seems to have, recognized the root of much of his trouble-at least until he changes his mind again. Already besieged by North Vietnamese troops who use his country as sanctuary, he now faces a second Communist threat. The Prince attacked the "global strategy of Asian Communism," crying...
...biggest problems at the Winter Olympics is winter. At Grenoble last week, heavy snow and gale-force winds, followed by a quick thaw, forced postponement of the men's downhill ski races and two-man bobsledding, then threatened to wash out the tobogganing altogether. The slippery slopes played havoc with the U.S. ski team: two fractures, a sprained ankle, a dislocated shoulder and a gashed head. A television helicopter crashed into a snowbank, forcing a French skier to veer off course into a fence, and a runaway toboggan smacked headlong into a spectator...
Power Play. Which indeed the plot resembles. Myra is actually a Myron who has had a Christine Jorgensen-type operation and is passing through Hollywood, trying to rape havoc upon unwary heterosexual males. To Myra, sex involves power play, with more power than play; the book's most harrowing scene is Myra's cruel seduction and humiliating buggery, with an artificial penis, of an all-American male...
...clumsy Broadway adaptation by Mrs. Jay Allen of a Muriel Spark novel, the drama focuses on the havoc created by an invincibly dedicated teacher who stimulates the imaginations of adolescent girls with her own feverish fantasies of love and life. "I put old heads on young shoulders," Miss
...Bedded down with the flu himself, the city's health commissioner, Dr. Edward O'Rourke, had expected the death toll to reach only 91 for the week. From London last week came reports that an A-2 epidemic had spread from Liverpool to London, playing havoc with Great Britain's labor force and trebling the number of flu and pneumonia deaths during three weeks in December...