Word: havoc
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...although in sports we are a little short on reserves, he said. The defense is fair, he added, and the pitching, sparked by Jack Wallace, is promising, though largely inexperienced. Hitting, however, has been rather weak so far; that is his biggest worry to date. The weather has wreaked havoc with his practice sessions, but otherwise he believes the team has been coming along pretty well...
...Laeken Castle, 42-year-old King Leopold has kept his title but has refused to govern. Belgian courts have stubbornly refused to cater to the Nazis, and have kept the prewar judicial system pretty well intact (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943). Nazi exploitation and expropriation have presumably played havoc with Belgium's interior economy, left the true ownership of many properties in doubt. But even this factor-a specter of disintegration which overhangs all Europe-did not seem to worry Premier Pierlot. Comfortably, he recalled that Belgium still has her rich African Congo, now aboom with wartime demands...
Even discounting some of these Russian claims, the booty captured by the Reds was obviously enormous. Booty and prisoners are the evidence that a drive has not merely captured territory but played havoc with the enemy's army. With 'sev eral compartments of the Ukraine still only partly flooded, the possibility of more booty and prisoners was still promising...
Stalingrad. All through the summer of 1942, the Red Army retreated-and Voronov hoarded his cannon. Like Stalin, he gambled on Stalingrad's guts. If the city held out, the hoarded men and guns would play havoc with the Germans. Stalingrad held...
Second-fiddling the fun is pert, legsome June Havoc (Pal Joey), cast as a lady bullfighter from the States, and given to such rhymed ruefulness...