Word: havoc
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...line of stalwart young pilots, standing at attention with glasses of sherry in their hands. After felicitations and a fighter's simple supper, the King was taken out on the field, where he examined Britain's best night-fighting planes, the Bristol Beau and the Douglas DB7 Havoc-bigger ships than the day fighters. They are two-seaters so that the pilot can concentrate on navigation, the gunner on spotting and shooting; twin-engined so that they would not be blinded by propeller reflection or by fiery exhausts right in front of their eyes; and with capacious fuel...
...outfit that was not surprised by the first shattering havoc wrought by German Stukas was the U. S. Navy. For Navy fliers had first conceived and developed the technique of launching a bomb from an airplane diving as close to the vertical as possible. But because U. S. citizens and their Congress believed in penny-pinching Army & Navy upkeep in peacetime, most of the Navy's dive-bombers today are obsolescent biplanes, descendants of the first Curtiss Helldiver...
...Friend (torchy), Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (catchy). Cigar-chewing Lyricist Lorenz Hart, the pint-sized genius with a two-quart capacity, abets the spirit of the occasion with leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister in ability to make a rhinestone gown twitch with significance. In singing Zip, the show's funniest novelty song, a girl named Jean Casto, wearing horn-rimmed goggles...
...from Canada left them and their escorts from Britain would pick them up. None of them was equipped to fight anything except submarines or armed merchantmen of their own size and speed. If a German pocket battleship-the Admiral S cheer or the Lutzow-was indeed among them, the havoc could only be like that of a wolf in a hen roost. For the raider, armored against the merchantmen's light weapons, would have 11-inch guns, aircraft, torpedo tubes and surpassing speed of 26 knots. Unless they could scatter and escape in bad weather or darkness, the entire...
FOLKESTONE, Eng. (Monday) -- British bombers shuttling in swarms across the Channel at 10-minute intervals heaped havoc upon Adolf Hitler's "invasion ports" last night and early today in the R.A.F.'s most savage assault upon the Nazi-held French coast...