Word: mayhemic
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...long-awaited first harvest of coffee from a joint venture with Leahy that the tribe hoped would make them rich too. When harvesting was interrupted by an outbreak of tribal warfare, and international coffee prices plummeted, Connolly and Anderson were there to capture the mayhem and lost chances...
...soft in the head. It "had as its ideological antecedent the notion that academics should take a back seat to self-exploration, socialization and working in groups," writes Cheri Pierson Yecke, a former education commissioner in Minnesota, in a forthcoming report for the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation titled Mayhem in the Middle: How Middle Schools Failed America and How to Make Them Work. "A disproportionate regard for student self-esteem and identity development," Yecke argues, yielded a "precipitous decline" in academic achievement...
...center in Amanzimtoti, 18 miles south of Durban. Outside an ice-cream parlor, a crowd of parents and children had gathered around a festive display featuring Santa Claus when a bomb hidden in a nearby garbage bin exploded. Within seconds, the scene of holiday merriment was transformed into grim mayhem. Five whites, among them a two-year-old child, were killed. In all, 61 people, including several blacks, were injured...
...motto of the Special Forces is "Anything, anytime, anyplace, anyhow." Such an open-ended commitment to mayhem gives some people pause. Critics fear that if the Administration succeeds in building up the Special Forces, the President will be tempted to use them. Small wars, the critics point out, have a way of escalating into large ones. "The U.S. could find itself 'training' one day and fighting in a war the next," warns the Center for Defense Information, a dovish think tank that analyzes military strategy. "Nowhere is the danger of being dragged into a war more acute than in Central...
Consider the formative years of Middle Linebacker Mike Singletary, the team's conscience. He is now the hub of the "46" defense (retired Kamikaze Doug Plank's old jersey number, a monument to mayhem). However, during Singletary 's rookie season in 1981, Ryan summarily yanked him in favor of an experienced hand of meager skills. After a few minutes on the sidelines, the chastened player murmured to the distracted coach, "I know what I did wrong now. Should I go back in?" Ryan looked at him as if unable to recall who he was. "What...