Word: havoc
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...color-conscious than Brazil, none more so than the Union of South Africa. Last week, when the Brazilian navy training ship Almirante Saldanha docked in Cape Town harbor, a shipload of sailors and officers ranging in skin tone from pale copper to charcoal black streamed into the city, made havoc of Premier Daniel Malan's brutally enforced segregation policy...
Much of the havoc wrought on the attacking Chinese last fortnight was caused by the U.S. 2nd Division's 23rd Regiment, commanded by Colonel John F. Chiles of Independence, Mo. This week, the Peking radio wishfully announced that John Chiles had been captured. Recalling the memorable denial of his fellow Missourian, Mark Twain, the colonel, snug in his command post on the east-central front, resisted the temptation to say that the Peking report was "greatly exaggerated." Said he, simply: " Tain't true...
...problem stems from the fact that the Bruins have five left-handed batters in their lineup. The southpaw-slugging outfield plus two lefty infielders have wreaked havoc among Eastern League right-handed pitchers this season. So far Brown has split two close contests with Rhode Island and over-ridden the University of Connecticut, Holy Cross, Pennsylvania, and Yale...
...innovator. Monetary catastrophes are as old as-money. Famine is but an old curse revived. Hitler's and Stalin's labor camps have done no more than renew the worst forms of ancient slavery. Atheism and superstition nourished in Rome of the decadence. The pacifist illusion wrought havoc in Hellas. State control and socialism were known in Egypt under the Pharaohs, in Peru under the Incas. The dictatorships of the 20th Century take the mind back to the Greek tyrannies, which were built on popular support...
Mildred, who, even as a tubercular, was played with bumptious enthusiasm by Cloris Leachman. As the clubfooted Philip, Tom Helmore seemed wooden-faced and without passion. Nearly as much drama was packed into the commercials (Tintair), which starred June Havoc, Joyce Mathews and a model who triumphantly completed dyeing her mouse-blonde hair to brunette while Maugham's characters were struggling to their happy ending...