Word: havoc
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Across the northern hills where the hairy Pathans played havoc with the Irish troopers, in the drawing rooms of effete Simla, and through the sweating jungles promising the lonely civilian a suicidal death, over all India even to the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, the genius of young Kipling searched and brought to light the romance of the sordid. But now, they whisper, that genius has been dead for thirty years, and its newest effort, "Limits and Renewals", is only a sickly, grave-scented breath of the old Kipling...
...most our fleet or the British could do towards attacking the respective countries would be to steam across, place the ball of the thumb on the nose, make a disrespectful gesture, and steam back for more fuel", the Admiral remarked. "Each would wreak such havoc on the convoyed commerce of the other, however, that the publics would raise so much hell that the war would be stopped...
...afternoon last week the citizenry turned out to watch a parade of school children marching in a pageant to celebrate the 133rd year of Honduran independence from Spain. While the children, black and white, with happy faces and stiff white clothes, filed up the sunny street, a whirling havoc of wind was winding up over the southeastern horizon at a deliberate gait of 35 m. p. h. Then the wind increased in velocity, contorted, smashed into Belize at 2:30 p. m. with the vindictive shriek and speed of a racing plane...
With the passing of divisionals into the limbo of forgotten things the Vagabond has given thought to his seniors. They are a surly lot at the moment for the anxiety of awaiting their marks has played havoc with their nerves. The old fellow has cast about to find some entertainment to divert their attention from the endless poker games and the other evils which they now employ to pass away the time. Nor have his castings been in vain...
...April 17, your realistic broadcast of a surgical operation caused havoc and considerable inconvenience in my home. When you enacted the scene of the operation on a young lady for a cancer and found that it was her heart instead, my daughter was about to faint but upon hearing that her mother had fainted quickly came to her senses. However my wife did not get over it for some time. It's just too real...