Word: mayhem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam in February 1968, and was assigned to Task Force Barker, a three-company search-and-destroy unit located a few miles from the hamlet at a firebase on Viet Nam Highway No. 1. Almost from the moment it arrived, C Company suffered daily casualties. Most of the mayhem was caused by mines and booby traps, and they were particularly plentiful in and around My Lai. By mid-March, the company, had lost a third of its original strength of more than 100 men. One day, a 155 mm. shell rigged as a booby trap killed one and injured...
...chief rival for power during World War II; and the Croats, including many former members of the Ustachi movement, which collaborated with the Nazis during the war. Since the three groups despise each other nearly as much as they do Tito, a good part of the murder and mayhem among Yugoslavs in West Germany undoubtedly involves exile rivalries...
BUTCH CASSIDY and the Sundance Kid is just barely a Western. It wavers between a New Yorker cartoon version of the Old West and an anti-hero extravaganza for a high school audience. Like a Charlie Chaplin movie, it serves up heaps of comedy and mayhem. The result is mostly successful. Director George Roy Hill has taken a tired theme (the outlaw as folk hero) and maintained it on a very high level of slapstick...
...intent is not particularly unusual; there are such offenses as assault with intent to kill. In dealing with a person's frame of mind regarding civil disorders, however, large and ambiguous questions arise involving the difference between the legitimate exercise of dissent and an unlawful intent to create mayhem...
Almost Incidental. Sharon and Sebring were the prime objects of the mayhem: the deaths of the other three victims seemed almost incidental. The bodies of Coffee Heiress Abigail Folger, 26, and her boy friend, a sort of society camp follower named Voityck Frokowski, 37, were found on the lawn. Both were clothed, but Frokowski's trousers were down around his ankles. Miss Folger had been stabbed repeatedly, and Frokowski had been both stabbed and shot. Steven Parent. 18, a student, was shot five times in the chest, apparently while trying to get away in his car. None...