Word: mayhem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Played with five swimmers and a goalie on each side, water polo combines much of basketball and soccer in the water. Although it appears to be mayhem to the uninitiated, the game is a series of carefully planned plays, defenses and counter-attacks. Often, when playing a less talented and organized team like B.C., a superior team will get off its game and start to play down to the opponent's level of skill...
Boston College tri-captain Billy McDonough played about 5000 minutes of hockey during his first three years at B.C. Of those 5000 minutes, he spent only 12 in the penalty box--a remarkable statistic considering the constant mayhem that is ECAC hockey...
...those stalwart Army football teams, the Black Knights of the Hudson, that Owner Al Davis so admired as a child growing up in Brooklyn. But the Raiders' silver-and-black has come to be associated with villainy, a source of pride to the wearers, who look affectionately upon mayhem...
...Reagan Administration disagrees. It apparently prefers to see schools as centers of mayhem and gangsterism, the way they have been depicted on film in The Blackboard Jungle (1955) and in a more recent movie called Class of!984. On Jan. 7 the President told a national radio audience that "we can't get learning back into our schools until we get the crime and violence out." He is expected to return to the subject when he gives his State of the Union message next week Meanwhile, the Administration has released a report, "Disorder in our Public Schools," designed...
...surprised that the mayor of Tripoli did not have Arafat arrested for vagrancy, trespassing, vandalism, inciting a riot, committing mayhem and destroying public property...