Word: havoc
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...citizen, as well as to every statesman, the victory of peace had a solemn urgency it had never had before. In London, Winston Churchill said: "We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among nations and that, instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, they may become the perennial fountain of world prosperity...
...June Havoc, pert musicomedienne who broke her kneecap last summer during a performance of Mexican Hayride, showed the injured member to interested doctors at New York State Workmen's Compensation Bureau, demanded more compensation for depletion of a capital asset. Paying customers, she explained, "expect to see my knees. I can't turn or kick and all I do is fake a few jitterbug steps...
...various ways last week the public got behind the drive. In Chicago Musi-comedienne June Havoc auctioned off two pairs of nylons at $1,300 worth of bonds a pair. The three survivors of the six-man detail which posed for the famed flag-raising picture on Iwo Jima - Pfc. Rene Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley - rode through the rain to inspire the cheering citizens of Boston. In Tampa, a 75-mm. cannon boomed hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne...
Clearly so absurd a character, so warped and inadequate a mind, despite its coldblooded political discernment, could not in so short a time have worked such universal havoc if it had not embodied forces of evil in the world far greater than itself...
...Werewolf Song did not sound silly to the Nazis. Even in defeat, they said, the new underground Werewolf movement "will have the satisfaction of causing havoc among occupation authorities and chaos in the heart of Europe...