Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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North of San Francisco, the Russian River rose to inundate the surrounding resorts and country houses as well as the tiny town of Guerneville. Said Guerneville Resident Mary Cervantes: "We've lost everything." Spreading out from California, the storms cut a haphazard trail of havoc. Mudslides that cut the main auto routes through the High Sierras stranded thousands of gamblers in Reno. In Utah rain deluged the low-lying areas and snows blanketed the mountains...
...others fear that Skocpol will wreak further havoc in an already embroiled department...
This military assistance is no assurance that the Contras will be successful. The Contra army of terrified peasants and ex-Somocista national guardsmen has created economic havoc for the Sandinistas but are far from causing their removal. For the last six years under the auspices of the CIA and the Argentine military, Contras have bombed ports, bridges, and petroleum tanks. But in spite of these measures, they have not captured a single town in the country. Their two-year-old front along Nicaragua's Southern border has collapsed, and most of the 15,000 guerillas have scattered in retreat...
Finally, I realized what I had been grasping for: I wanted to wreak havoc on the federal highway system...
Three large Core Curriculum courses changed their originally planned meeting times this semester, wreaking havoc on the schedules of hundreds of students...