Word: havoc
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...rather seldom, that a side has such contradictory remarks from its supporters, but the affirmative made havoc with these conflicting opinions. The next debate will be on the question, "Resolved, That President Cleveland should furnish the U. S. Senate all papers bearing on removals...
...opportunity for having a good time rather than as a serious and important duty, when their further services were declared to be unnecessary. Later on many regular troops were equipped here with arms and ammunition, and in 1864, at the time when the "Merrimac" was creating such havoc in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition put on the northern side, and also erected the little building which stood just to the east of the addition. This he had fitted up as a workshop for the manufacture of muskets. As a state enterprise, however, this...
...reported that Dr. Pope has discovered several new and puzzling curves which will play havoc with our batsmen this afternoon...
...very forcible manner. In 1875 the sophomore societies were abolished by the order of the faculty, and a few years later the freshman societies ceased to exits by decree of the same powers. In 1876 a band of undergraduates broke into one of the senior society halls and made havoc generally with what they could lay hands upon, and in 1878 another gang of collegiate marauders embellished two of the senior society halls by means of a bountiful use of paint, laid on in original designs. These last offenders were tried in the city court, but they escaped free...
...floods in Germany and elsewhere are subsiding, and as the waters recede the terrible havoc wrought becomes apparent...