Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact is, it's hard to know just what to do when you call yourself a liberal and are living in the United States in the 1980s, witnessing years of havoc being wreaked on your ideals by a wave of politicians called the New Right. Every week, Mark Alan Stamaty provides those of the old left with a refuge in the only thing they have left to do: laugh...
...reopen. Bread was scarce but, miraculously, fresh flowers were on sale again. As a Western resident remarked, "The Lebanese at least have savoir-faire, if no common sense." The sound of tinkling glass could be heard on many streets as residents cleaned up after the week's havoc. Along the Corniche, as U.S. Marines in battle dress watched impassively, fishermen and swimmers were out early in the brilliant sunshine, demonstrating the extraordinary resilience of the city once again. -By William E. Smith. Reported by William Stewart and Roberto Suro Beirut
Sustained rains so desperately needed in the corn belt were causing havoc in the deserts of Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. Nine Italian tourists and their pilot were killed when a small plane crashed in a thunderstorm near the Grand Canyon. Four other people were killed in accidents related to the freak August cloudbursts in the Southwest. Among them were two motorists who were caught in flash floods that swept through San Bernardino, 65 miles east of Los Angeles. Four inches of rain fell in four hours in the desert area...
...Capelja is mellow, a perfect foil for the more turbulent personality of Schofield's Debbie. Schofield faithfully portrays a confused teenager whose parents just don't understand her growing pains, and who reluctantly submits herself to the sexual advances of her first surfer beau. Although Debbie's exploits play havoc with her personality, Schofield lets us watch her indecision, her confusion, and ultimately her resolution to the crazy summer...
...conveyed by the Administration that it is again getting itchy for a military quick fix. But any military action that would be quick would not be, almost by definition, a true fix, and might well end up being the opposite. Sending in U.S. combat forces would surely wreak political havoc at home before it could prove decisive against the guerrillas in El Salvador. As for Nicaragua, a full-scale U.S.-supported invasion by the contras and the Honduran armed forces might drive the Sandinistas back into the countryside, but almost certainly the war would go on, and the U.S. would...