Word: mischiefism
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...Daily Mail gasped at her "diplomacy, mischief, bubbling sense of fun." The News Chronicle's Percy Cudlipp, finding prose inadequate, turned and with a side glance at Playwright-Husband Arthur Miller penned a parody of Hiawatha titled Highbrowarthur's Honeymoon...
Time for a Change. In Anderson, S.C., charged with malicious mischief after he set off two sticks of dynamite at a political rally, ex-Convict Andes ("Footsie") Wood explained to cops: "I did it just to liven up the meeting a bit. I couldn't see who was talking from where...
...have many ideas about what NATO should not do, very few about what it should. "We have no solid idea of what to pursue," admitted NATO's able Secretary General Lord Ismay. "Some people seem to think that we need work to do to keep us out of mischief...
...must be remembered that the burden of accomplishment was on the Russians, who had wanted to make the trip in the first place. The Soviet leaders were not seriously interested in concluding agreements on world problems. They had hoped to achieve personal popularity which could have caused much mischief between Britain and her ally the United States. In this they failed...
...suddenly announced that it shared President Eisenhower's conviction that the great powers should jointly seek Middle East peace through the U.N. Naturally the Russians had reasons of their own. They had been willing to help Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser with arms in order to create mischief, but pulled back when it seemed that the mischief might turn to war-a war that could get out of hand. The Russians also undoubtedly hoped to reap an immediate benefit. What better-or more inexpensive-present could Khrushchev and Bulganin take to their hard-pressed host, Anthony Eden, than...