Word: mayhem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just beginning in Leopoldville. Two top officials flatly accused Tshombe's regime of tailoring propaganda to Katanga's own set of questionable facts. G. Mennen Williams, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in a Detroit speech accused the Katanga regime of fabricating "horrendous tales of indiscriminate mayhem by the United Nations troops.'' In a Philadelphia speech the same evening, Carl T. Rowan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, added the accusation that Katanga was waging a "clever big-money campaign" through a Manhattan-based Belgian public relations man named Michel Struelens, had spent...
...burden to her family. She was no early beauty. She had a face shaped like a teardrop and (she says) "ears that flapped like cabbage leaves." At Roedean she followed up her gaffe before the Queen Mother with other capers that ranged from throwing water on the headmistress to mayhem on the playing fields, where she broke the legs of two schoolmates ("but only one seriously-cricket is such a deadly dull game, I took aim at girls llegs"), cracked the collarbone of another during a foot race ("She was getting ahead of me, so I tripped...
Gump's own taste in all things has not been universally admired. The New York Times said that his favorite hobby-the Guckenheimer Sour Kraut German Band, which he leads in irregular concerts in San Francisco-deserves "a special place in the history of musical mayhem." But in matters artistic, Gump's has established itself as a place where people not sure of their own judgment may buy confidently. Bargains are not the house specialty, but not everything is expensive: on the same page in the Gump catalogue, a gold-finished compact with a jade medallion is listed...
...apes a silent-film villain-slack jaw, rolling eyes and all. Whole episodes are unprofitably murky. A question at the core of the film -whether corrosive city is preferable to deadening land-is never convincingly asked, although Rocco is supposed to end with its answer. Worst is the endless mayhem. Visconti's camera is a carnivore, stalking for blood and bruised flesh, and the sight is fascinating. But it is like a lion tearing at a zebra: only a spectator with a great hatred for zebras can watch it for long...
...A.A.U. indoor water polo championship last week, spectators and referee alike were only partially interested in the fancy teamwork, the precise passing and the tireless swimming. They spent most of the time trying to peer into the bottom of the turgid pool, to spot the mayhem they were sure was in progress...