Word: havoc
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Some Western observers thereupon cried havoc. The cold war was on again; the leopard had not changed his spots; the fat was in the fire, and, said one liberal U.S. commentator, the defense budget should be immediately increased as a result of the failure of the second Geneva conference. The observers most downcast by the failures of Geneva II were those who, forgetting the essential limitation Eisenhower had placed upon it, had exaggerated Geneva...
...Peak. Behind the swirling clouds of political dust that surrounded the farm situation, it was possible to locate and nail down some solid economic facts. Pieced together, they produced a picture of U.S. agriculture that bore little resemblance to the scene of despair conjured up amid cries of havoc...
First, he would have taken note of the conditions and wondered at the insanity of the American football player. The wind raised havoc with the passes; the setting sun glared into the eyes of the passer; each time someone fell, his face slid along in the slimy mud; yet no one seemed to care...
Main Phase to Come. Violence there was, however, although nothing like the havoc-wreaking anti-Greek violence in Turkey last month (see NEWS IN PICTURES). On the day that Sir John's predecessor, Sir Robert Armitage, boarded ship for a new post (governor of Nyasaland), demonstrations broke out in six cities...
...Havoc. In Wallsend, Australia, Hilton Clifford, 42, fell into a beery sleep during a cops-and-robbers movie, woke up when the villain was bludgeoning the heroine, ran through the town yelling for help, tore up a wooden station house gate to attract police to the scene, was fined ?1 ($2.24), ordered to pay ?10 damages...