Word: havoc
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...down a few feet from Tea Dance Veteran Julie Halford. "The impact threw me against a concrete railing," she said. The entire crash sequence took only 15 seconds. Edgarton, above the lobby and off to one side, had his back turned when the bridges crashed. Instead of seeing the havoc, he saw the startled expressions of the witnesses. Said he: "People hid their faces and turned away...
...they slowly migrated to at least 21 states, including Florida and California, although so far only pockets of serious infestation have occurred west or south of West Virginia. In the 1950s, scientists thought they finally had the moths under control with DDT. But the pesticide caused so much ecological havoc, including the death of some of the birds and rodents that are the moth's natural enemies, that DDT has been banned from general...
...dozen other jets from the Nimitz that were airborne when the Prowler crashed got orders, as standard procedure, to land ashore. By 1 a.m., thanks to courageous work by the young Nimitz seamen, the fires were quelled, and the first of 13 corpses picked from the smoldering havoc; the 14th body was never found. With 48 men in sick bay, the casualties exceeded the capacities of the medical facilities. Medevac helicopters arrived at 4:30 a.m. and minutes later took off for Jacksonville with the 21 most seriously wounded crewmen. Then the reckoning of hardware destruction began: the incinerated Prowler...
...official Bonn spokesman, meanwhile, dismissed Begin's accusations as "misleading and insulting," and inexcusable even during an election campaign. Though Begin supporters denied the charges of electioneering, there was little doubt that his anti-German tirade was popular at home. Begin seemed downright pleased by the diplomatic havoc he had wrought. Said he: "I won't lose even a moment's sleep...
...linksters face only two more matches before meeting the other Division One teams--May 1 against Providence and May 5 against Dartmouth. Raffi predicted that the Crimson will wreak havoc against the Friars and mentioned plans for "revenge" against the Big Green...