Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weather conditions wreaked havoc on Crimson goalkeeper Ann Diamond, who had an excellent first half. Two wet balls slipped through her hands and resulted in Princeton tallies, and the wind played tricks with the other two shots that scored...
...sets or even entire plays from a veer, or Wishbone or Power I offenses, but will never stay with one formation long enough to allow the defense to know what to expect. As he talks about it, Restic grows animated, actually improvising a play-by-play analysis of the havoc wreaked on a defense: "The ball's coming, they don't know where. You're running the football, they're running for coverage. We set in motion, we change the set, they're running, they're scrambling," As Carm Cozza, Yale's coach for 16 years...
Bougas's usually punishing crosscourt shots were ineffective because the outdoor courts caused the balls to become fuzzy and the wind played havoc with her groundstrokes...
SUPPOSE THERE ARE two academic centers of power vying for intellectual hegemony--call them Harvard and Yale. Harvard, long dominant in struggles for primacy, has grown complacent. Yale, meanwhile, has devised a cunning plot designed to wreak havoc at Harvard and pave the way for its own ultimate victory in the cold war of academia...
...reduced turmoil, providing them with a safe, acceptable outlet for their anti-social urges. The stories themselves rely heavily on archetypes, and some of the best films of the genre have an allegorical, fairy-tale quality. In pop psychology terms, the monster emerges from the viewer's id, wreaks havoc for awhile, and is destroyed by the hero, who represents the triumphant super...