Word: mayhemic
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...WRONG BOX. Doddering old John Mills attempts mayhem on his doddering old brother, Ralph Richardson, in a hilarious race to see which branch of the family will inherit a large fortune...
Incidents of terrorism have risen steadily in number and violence since 1960 and have also undergone discernible changes in emphasis and targets. Beginning in 1964, the Viet Cong became far less discriminate in their mayhem, far more ready to kill for killing's sake. And since last year, policemen have been a special target for the Red assassination squads-a tribute paid to the growing expertise of the nation's "white mice" in catching the terrorist before he strikes...
...things straight about "Mayhem on Motorcycles" [July 29]. Society is more concerned with eliminating motorcycles than with eliminating the real cause of the problem, the Average Joe Driver, who never sees anything smaller than a Chrysler and blithely turns left in front of motorcycles with a devil-may-care attitude engendered by the two tons of steel between him and that 300-lb. bike...
Many psychiatrists believe that there is something intrinsic in modern American society that causes on occasion the sort of senseless mayhem practiced last week in Austin. Some of the violence of the frontier still lingers in the American character, they believe, aggravated to extremes in a few individuals by the pressure to succeed and the social and economic mobility of American society. Perhaps, as many psychiatrists insist, the American mother's increasingly powerful position in the family has weakened the ego of American men, who are with rare exceptions responsible for mass murder in the U.S. All, or none...
...area until the fever subsided, promising to do everything in their power to keep order. The police agreed, and the stratagem worked-for a while. Then a squad car squealed through the area in response to a burglar alarm, and the leaders' spell was broken; mayhem erupted for the second night. By midweek the police, now under the command of the department's chief troubleshooter, Captain James Holzman, were quick to disperse any sizable gathering. Miraculously, the reign of hate left only one Chicagoan, a 21-year-old Puerto Rican, seriously injured...