Word: havoc
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...fact, most of the action is local rather than national, but it can wreak havoc, as in Crane's case. After word of his gay "marriage" leaked back to the school in rural Byron Center (pop. 6,500), where Crane has been teaching for three years, outraged parents demanded his ouster. There were no grounds for firing him, especially since he had shaped up the once moribund school band to win a regional award. Instead, the school board proclaimed that "individuals who espouse homosexuality do not constitute proper role models" and promised to "monitor" Crane...
...gain a new dimension of tension. People studiously avoid the topic that carries weight for the next three years of our lives. Tears flow freely. Friendships seem to go up in flames. The little white lies my mother swore by backfire dramatically. Being blunt is the only option; then havoc breaks loose. We have been reduced to eighth grad--people stop talking to each other, talk behind each other's backs, scheming busily...
...thing that Brown does quite well is they get out into the passing lanes better than any other team," Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. "They can create havoc with their defense...
...response to recent break-ins at Matthews Hall, the Harvard University Police Department has announced that it will install combination locks on the doors of Matthews bathrooms, apparently to prevent thugs from hiding in the lavatories and then emerging at night to wreak havoc on unsuspecting first-years...
...virus, dutifully taking blood samples every few months) but in the hard-to-reach lymph nodes. Now scientists realize that there is a window of opportunity, and a fairly large one at that, to attack the virus while it is still hiding, before it has started to wreak havoc on the body's natural defenses...