Word: havoc
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...havoc created by the electronic "pilot fish" that, as the North Vietnamese know by now, often precede the B-52s: EB-66 Destroyers and EA-6B Intruders, whose bulges, pods and blisters house those gadgets designed to confuse ground radar, as well as needle-nosed F-105 "wild weasels," whose special radiation-seeking missiles lock onto and streak toward active enemy radar installations. Then, after the pilot fish, came the sharks: 17 B-52s. The B-52s dropped their 30-ton bomb loads into the darkness over Haiphong from 30,000 feet. The explosions destroyed a petroleum tank farm near...
...drama and kite-flying contests, cabaret and Festival sales at the Coop. The brick walls around Harvard Yard may come tumbling down to the vibrations of a rock concert, and colorful banners may break the drab facades of many a store-front--music and merry-making might even wreak havoc with the traditional apathy and antipathies that threaten to haunt the area...
...roof of the officers' club went piecemeal. The house of Major General Frederick J. Kroesen, the division commander, simply blew apart. In the confusion of crumbling buildings and hangars, one man died, eleven were injured and 33 helicopters were damaged beyond repair. In all, Hester wreaked more havoc on the base in 24 hours than the Viet Cong or the North Vietnamese army could have done in six months. It was a sadly appropriate sendoff. Last week Kroesen pulled the lanyard on an artillery piece and officially fired the last round of the Americal in combat...
...fairness, statistics played havoc with this year's housing assignments. The experience of the past four years had shown two trends to be dominant: more students were taking leaves of absence, thereby opening up vacancies in the Houses as each academic year progressed, and, students taking leaves of absence tended to go to school during the fall semester and take the spring term off, thereby extending the total number of years they spent here...
...person goes into this principle who is selfish, lustful or jealous, it will make a devil out of him." Whatever his spiritual resources, though, the man with three wives has serious worldly problems. Just the simple recreational act of going to a drive-in movie has potential for domestic havoc. "We fight over who will sit by him," says one wife. "So we go to triple features and take turns." The jealousy factor in this family could be particularly acute, since the wives are also blood sisters...