Word: havoc
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...criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned the tactic of infantry legions, and brought lumbering over the roads from Fort Devens (at the risk of putting a few more kinks in Massachusetts' great new highway system) a tank--a weapon that could wreak more havoc against the enemy than they could possibly do to us. The fact that the warden would not let this weapon within his gates (and, incidentally, that it would not fit through the gates) is, we feel sure, only a temporary problem. We congratulate the forward-looking law enforcers of this Commonwealth...
...boom. The remarkable fact about this surging confidence was that it began to grow at a time when business was slipping. Such doomsayers as British Economist Colin Clark predicted that the U.S. was in for a major depression, and right up until the November election Democrats cried economic havoc. But few really believed them. As industrial production edged down, the market went up-and as it turned out, the market was right...
...healthy government will know how to derive nourishment for clear, strong, decisive policymaking. The struggles related in The Hydrogen Bomb took place in a Government (and in a nation) that was confused about its own strategic situation and unclear about its aims. A determined pressure group can play havoc in such a situation. To relate the story of how one such pressure group almost did, is not to set up a conflict of science v. the state. It is to warn that feeble top leadership can lead even the most powerful nations into mortal danger...
...Author Jean-Paul Sartre ground out a middling anti-Communist tract in the form of a play called Dirty Hands. Since then, Sartre has changed camps, is now a faithful member in good standing of a Communist braintrust known as the World Peace Council. Last week Turncoat Sartre cried havoc because Dirty Hands was presented at Vienna's Volkstheater. He threatened to sue to keep the curtain from rising, but the play opened as scheduled, naturally proved to be a smash hit, was climaxed by a 30-minute ovation from the audience, which gave the cast 25 curtain calls...
Against the majority's chorus rang the voice of Lord Vansittart, permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during the Hitler-appeasement era, a man who cried havoc then and was now crying havoc again. In a letter to the Times of London he wrote: "The second World War was fought precisely because it was thought that we would swallow anything. And precisely the same process is being repeated before our eyes today. There are even more ominous symptoms and similarities. Whenever the Nazis were ready for another expansion, they charged their opponents with provocations . . . The Communists adopt...