Word: mischiefism
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...Meserveys were a close-knit unit. Bob's mother fed her family on music, and as a small boy Bob learned to play piano, drums, guitar, trumpet and harmonica. Neither Bob nor his younger brother Frank Jr. ever got into trouble, even though they ran about and made mischief with the neighborhood Mexican boys twice their ages...
...J.A.B. correlated records on some 31,000 troublemaking juveniles last year, marked out unruly youngsters to be taken to court as serious offenders or chronic mischief-makers (3,316), listed others who are to be let go with a police warning (24,766). J.A.B. officers followed up with visits to homes of errant youngsters to lecture their parents, determine whether the city's social agencies should be called in to help the family. Kennedy decided that the J.A.B. was dipping too deeply into social work that was not police duty. He put 100 of the J.A.B...
...unmitigated disaster." Said the Telegram: "To explain to an American that Mr. Hutchison acts as an adviser to [Opposition Leader Lester] Pearson, has little acquaintance with leading figures in the new government at Ottawa, and has long exhibited a deep hatred of Mr. Dulles, hardly offsets the mischief in the article...
...stand it." The McCormicks decided that they would indeed send Kelly Jean to school-but not to any ordinary one. Their adopted son Jimmy, who also had an IQ of 147, had been so bored in public school that he had flubbed his studies, made constant mischief, was in danger of becoming a painfully shy neurotic until his parents placed him in a stiff private school geared to the superior student...
...these pages Satan and all his imps lope through the swamps and forests of Galicia. tempting a vain girl with an enchanted mirror, destroying a placid marriage, debauching the entire village of Frampol with dancing, vodka and banknotes. God comes slowly after, not to punish Satan for his mischief, but to apply his lash to the backs of sinful Jews...