Word: havoc
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...thus take matters into their own hands, he believes the solution of the German problem may be indefinitely prolonged. For he fears that war-guilt trials by the United Nations would only heighten the frustrated furor Teutonicus, while failure to punish the Nazi leaders would play spiritual havoc with the Allied peoples in their own long-frustrated desire to get at Hitler...
Twin-motored R.A.F. Beaufighters with underwing rocket guns have been wreaking Buck Rogerish havoc among enemy convoys in the Aegean during the last six months. R.A.F. flyers say that rocket salvos hit like 6-inch naval guns, are far deadlier than bombs. Said one, of his latest convoy attack: "My salvo blew the whole stern away. I had to weave plenty to get out of the way of chunks of ship that came...
Number Two. Fires sprang up everywhere. Smoke turned the afternoon into night. Police, firemen, troops poured in to fight fire and panic. Just 30 minutes after the first explosion, a second created still more havoc. Fire threatened to engulf a city of 1,500,000. U.S., British, Indian troops fought flames for five days. As they rushed from one danger spot to another, the Americans sang Deep in the Heart of Texas. Sappers demolished hundreds of buildings to check the fire...
...benefit of the few people who missed "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" when it made its first appearance in Boston about five months ago, the U.T. has brought the picture back to Cambridge on a bill with one of last year's disappointments, "Cry Havoc...
...Havoc," when it appeared on the West Coast as a play, had a dramatic idea. The notion of throwing people together and then dooming them, while not new, was most timely, and the character portraits were finely drawn. The show ran eight months...