Word: mischiefism
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Malicious mischief, vandalism, and plate glass losses are non-insured. The high cost of outside insurance makes it possible to run the risk of replacing windows no matter what season...
...stubbornly obsessing book. At first, the entries are all G.I.-the duty jargon of a young eager beaver who has few doubts that superior officers will see his log and praise him for Going by the Book even on a desert island. Then solitude begins to work its mischief by mixing up time and perspective-bleaching the freshest memories, reviving older ones to an almost unbearable intensity...
Potential for Mischief. It was the Penn Central's liquidity crisis that forced the railroad to declare insolvency. In his petition to the court, Chairman Paul Gorman said that the line was "virtually without cash, unable to meet its debts, [and] has no means of borrowing." The petition declared only that the company could not repay $9,795,000 in commercial notes and $21,900,000 in debt and rental charges on its equipment, all due by July 1. But that is a minuscule part of the railroad's financial woes...
...into such severe political fire from key Democrats in Congress that the Administration withdrew its offer. The critics threatened to make an election issue out of the loan by portraying it as a bailout for the Administration's friends in big business and banking. "The potential for political mischief really scared people," says a top Administration official...
...Toole appears to be in almost continual spasm from beginning to end. Mired in the Scottish highlands, he plays a daft and decadent nobleman, improbably named Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, who has an unholy craving for his sister (Susannah York). After causing no end of mischief-including crippling Susannah's marriage and shooting his left ear off with a shotgun-poor "Pink," as sis calls him, is packed off to a genteel asylum run by a kindly doctor named Maitland. Cyril Cusack, the fine Irish character actor, plays this role with a certain amount of bemused charm...