Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to floods, mudslides and other natural havoc, this year's wet weather has had some less publicized if irritating consequences. Their ranks swollen by record springtime rains, mosquitoes are attacking in force in many parts of the country, feasting on their human prey with buzzing fury. To Gary Benzon, mosquito-control superintendent for Plymouth County, Mass., south of Boston, there is no doubt that this will be a bumper summer for the pesky insects. "In an average year we get about a thousand calls about mosquito problems between May and September. This year we have already got close...
Hitler's odious power to spellbind an audience has wreaked havoc once again in the furor over the fake diaries [May 16]. Even in death, Hitler has destroyed the reputation and credibility of gullible historians and editors, most notably those at the magazine Stern. All it took was a forger for the Fűhrer to bask in the limelight yet another time. Had the diaries proved authentic, then collectors would have been at one another's throats to own the journals of a man who caused such worldwide suffering...
...double by Bruce Weller got things going in the Crimson eighth, and Eliott Rivera then reached on an error. Ed Farrell's pop up behind second baseman Paul Dawley wreaked havoc in the Jumbo outfield, and while three fielders gathered round the ball dropped in for a run-scoring single. Farrell would have been caught going for second, but an errant throw allowed him to reach the bag. A Vinnie Martelli single scored Rivera and Farrell...
...similar pattern developed in the final stanza when the spikers built and eventually lost 4-1 and 9-5 advantages. Each time Ross sparked the rallies through his emphatic inside game only to see disorganization plague the squad. Once again the Panthers intensified their serving efforts and caused havoc in Harvard's setting. As Martin said, "They got passes to their hitters very easily whereas we had to battle to set up our offense." These problems and a last Panther spike ended the game...
Brutus, by contast, comes across very much as the brooding, thoughful central figure--an "honorable man" caught between considered morality and bold, heroic action. James Finnegan consistently understates Brutus's tension and growing disillusion at the havoc his revolutionary act has brought. Only an occasional flush, as he runs his fingers through thick curly hair or lets a nerve flicker in the corner of his mouth, reveals the turmoil written into the character...