Word: havoc
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...Within the past three weeks, it has outdone itself in making things uncomfortable for men in the Reserve Corps, coming out with four official statements, three of which have directly contradicted one another. This gross inefficiency has resulted in more than the expected amount of confusion, and has played havoc with the farsighted plans of colleges and students...
...East Coast householders last week fretted and froze over the fuel oil problem, they at least had one big consolation: thousands of nonwar businesses were in trouble too. OPA's order to slash oil use up to 40% was playing havoc with hotels and laundries, stores and office buildings with their own private power plants, semi-war industries like paper mills and textile dyers. Examples...
...shall always respect war hereafter. The cost of life, the dreary havoc of comfort and time, are overpaid by the vistas it opens of eternal life, eternal law, reconstructing and uplifting society-breaks up the old horizon and we see through the rifts a wider vista."-R. W. Emerson: Letter to Thomas Carlyle, Sept...
...much havoc it has wrought, neither Washington nor London cares to admit. The German Admiralty has claimed that German submarines, aircraft and surface raiders sank just under 9,000,000 tons of Allied shipping in 1942. The reputable Christian Science Monitor declared that Allied, sinkings are now at the rate of 1,000,000 tons a month. In 1942, according to Mr. Roosevelt, U.S. shipyards produced 8,090,800 tons...
Surprising as was the havoc wrought along Pearl Harbor's battleship row, there were other eyebrow-raising items in the Navy's long-awaited report...