Word: havok
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...scientific style, an English major might suggest sending a Harvard professor behind enemy lines to broadcast lectures on the use of the word "the" as traced through Milton's Paradise Lost. When everyone in the enemy country falls asleep, we could then run in and wreak havok by painting every third house magenta, or possibly mauve...
There was no denying it. Peering into the mirror, lamenting the havok sleep wreaked on a delicate head of hair, I discovered that my hairline had moved. I grabbed the sink for support, and ran my hand back from my forehead, flattening the reed-like protrusions that stood in disarray. "We had a little fun while you were asleep," they seemed to say, but I wasn't concerned with them anymore. It was their dead comrades, fallen in the night, which elicited not concern, but utter horror...
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