Word: mischiefism
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...From the law the Lord handed down to Moses from Sinai (Exodus 21:22-25): "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according to the woman's husband will lay upon him: and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shall give life for life. Eye for eye. tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe...
...Cubans were certain at first that they had shot down one of the clandestine planes that fly from Florida to drop incendiary bombs on sugar fields or make similar mischief. Only 200 ft. from where the plane came down, the Castro soldiers captured a carload of Cubans, who could have been waiting for a pickup. But after Shergales turned up at Havana police headquarters, well dressed and confident, Castro's newspaper, Revolution, dropped the whole story. One theory was that the flight was faked to give Castro one more small-plane yarn to howl about; another, that...
...going is good, he has been known to trade wisecracks with the gallery. But even at home with his family (two daughters, 4 and 1½), in the inevitable motels of the tournament circuit, he devotes every spare moment to grooming his collection of clubs. "Keeps you out of mischief," says Palmer...
...chortle daes a body nae mischief, laddies; an' I ken ye by yer mumpin...
...been bought by 55 papers, was barely distinguishable from her running chronicle of domestic woe. She went to Russia, said Landers Fan Fanning, "to find out what the hell people are up to." What people are up to in Moscow, according to Dear Ann, is the same old mischief and misery that fills the capitalist press's lovelorn columns...