Word: mayhem
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Equally shocking are the voices of the hoodlums. They seem at first to be speaking another language, easily recounting acts of aggression and mayhem that might give even hardened criminals pause. Asked why an ice pick was his preferred weapon in a previous assault, a thin, pale, seemingly fragile boy chuckles and answers, "Internal bleeding." The more they talk, the less monstrous they become: "I wouldn't mind goin' to school if I knew how to read . . . My dreams scare me ... I want somebody to know I been here . . . I can't do nothing...
Founder Renato Curcio, 36, and 150 other brigatisti are currently in jail or on trial for numerous crimes -39 murders, 30 kidnapings, ten jail breaks and a variety of subversive activities. But the organization continues to grow, and so does its appetite for mayhem. When Curcio, then a sociology student, formed the group in 1969, its activities were largely limited to rhetoric about the need for "an armed proletariat vanguard" to do battle against "the imperialist state of the multinationals." In the early 1970s, the group moved from vandalism and arson into a new field: kidnapings of plant managers...
...been smacked in the face by the stick of B.U. defenseman Dick Lamby. Moments later the puck was tied up in the Harvard zone. A short discussion took place, the referee included, concerning Lamby's high-stick. Then, mayhem, George and Lamby exchanged blows. George took advantage of the first fight in recent Harvard hockey history, connecting to Lamby's head...
...time a law was established to protect ski areas from responsibility once a skier gets off the lift, and to protect true skiing enthusiasts from those bent on mayhem and litigation...
Blanton is knowing in the uses of loneliness. He suffers pain and disappointment without the crutch of self-pity There are always whisky and opportunities to commit mayhem in the name of cowboy justice. When a cow in Blanton's charge is gang-raped by three bulls from a neighboring ranch, Henry and his boys fall on them with castrating knives. But when Blanton's boss breaks a promise that could lead to a measure of financial independence, Henry submits in proud silence...