Word: havoc
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...cleats of the Crimson eleven added to the havoc previous games have wreaked on the turf in the Yale Bowl with the result that the field has taken on the appearance of an earthquake center that has suffered an unusually bad disturbance...
...have heard Harvard's juvenile three centuries mentioned with apology. That is absurd. Three centuries in America look like ten in Europe; beyond a certain point historical foreshortening plays havoc with time, besides which the foundation of a college three hundred years ago in New England was a more creditable achievement than that of an English university six hundred years back. One feels a certain nakedness at first, in the absence of the accepted minutiae,--even of gowns, bicycles and turbans, which contribute to the peculiar flavor of Cambridge life. But then one creates new clothes of tradition and atmosphere...
...dozen precinct captains swarm around the phone. Each wears a round badge, patriotically decorated in red, white, and blue, also with green, yellow, and purple, thrown in to make it attractive. An enormously fat bull-dog with a hide that was once white, rolls on the floor in the havoc of cigar-butts, torn posters, and dirt. He slouches away from one of the campaign managers. He upsets the spittoon. "Jesus, Curley, watch it!" one of the cigar-chewers admonishes...
...Havoc reigned at Langdell Hall yesterday afternoon when the crafty students who had heard of the great migration to the banks of the Potomac began to quiz the powers that be as to those who were to deliver the real legal information. After much hunting about a few wringers were finally brought in who could give the courses in the required fashion, but left the poor struggling law students coming to drink the chalices of learning at the "world's greatest" rather against this new system of government which feels it necessary to take away the men who were hired...
...Federal bug-fighters hoped that last month's great dust storm (TIME, May 21) would play havoc with pests as well as with crops. Nevertheless they went out to do battle with sprays, dusting, barriers, poison, traps, burning...