Word: havoc
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...Greene has had good reason for championing this posture of contemptuous detachment in the past. In several of his books set in the Third World, his jaded protagonists have stood in direct contrast to the crusading idealists who set out to save the world and end up wreaking more havoc than happiness. The most memorable and, sadly, the most prescient example of this theme came in Greene's The Quiet American, about Vietnam in the days when the Americans were still only supplying arms to the French. The reformist zealot there was a clean-cut, self-serious American adviser named...
...P.L.O. leader claimed in Lebanon last week, the raid might even turn into a major economic blow against Israel as well. The attack, said an Al-Fatah commander who had helped to plan it, was designed not only to derail the Cairo-Jerusalem peace talks but also to raise havoc with the tourist trade in Israel during the Christian Holy Week and over Easter. Last week, indeed, the P.L.O. issued a warning through its official news agency, WAFA, that Christian pilgrims should stay away from Jerusalem's traditional holy places during the Easter religious rites because "several operations...
...official spare" designation on the varsity roster. Mike was supposed to be the man waiting in the wings to take over for rowers who succumbed to the sundry ailments that plague their lot. And sure enough, just as fast as you can say 'crab,' the injury devil wreaked its havoc on the lights...
...McLaughlin renaissance period began without its chief artisan, co-captain Steve Irion. The loss of the squad's leading scorer and rebounder to knee surgery wreaked havoc with a potentially explosive frontline...
...celebrated comparison made by Premier Raymond Barre, who had likened his efforts to boost the French economy to nurturing a tree. "Obstinately but durably, the tree grows little by little," Barre assured French voters. On the other hand, Socialism and Communism blow in like a "typhoon," wreaking havoc in the whole forest...