Word: havoc
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...concerned and knowledgeable student electorate could wreak havoc with the Cambridge political scene if it so wished. The issues are certainly there--an extravagantly mismanaged rent control law, a disintegrating school system, highly flammable relationships between the police and the black community...
...plant's critics, opposing Con Ed's request, charge that Indian Point No. 2 will wreak ecological havoc on the Hudson and decimate its fish population. They say that the company's first nuclear facility, Indian Point No. 1, has been killing striped bass, perch and other species since 1963. According to the Hudson River Fishermen's Association, the nuke was directly responsible for the death of between 310,000 and 475,000 fish in a six-week period last year alone...
Author Faust has always been a fast man with an Apocalypse. But here he is so fast and gratuitous that it seems as if he had loosed havoc upon his creations in order to cover up the compassion and sentiment that went into their making. On a purely technical level, F.J.K.'s sudden gory end solves an other problem: ending a fine short story that threatens to outshine an amusing but amorphous novel...
...carving knife. (So does Mailer, for that matter, but in the Harper's essay, he seems to be too, er, modest to reflect on Millett's criticism of his own work, except in passing.) He is, however, swift to show us how and where the good woman wrecks havoc...
...common denominator in many of these symptoms is excessive anxiety triggered by the realistic fear of a quake's havoc. Explains Dr. Stephen Howard of the San Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic: "If something bad happens, children feel responsible: maybe their bad thoughts caused it." Adults, too, can regress to atavistic fantasy. "Their first response is to think it's the wrath of God, maybe even the Apocalypse," says Dr. Edward Stainbrook of the University of Southern California...