Word: mischiefism
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...household goods. Added to these irritants in civilian life was the arrival of Britain's miserable winter weather, the still present threat of invasion, the anxiety of continuing air raids, the problem of keeping a mobilized but inactive army of more than two million men out of mischief, the possibility of another blow to civilian morale if, for instance, symbolic Gibraltar falls...
Cheering and happily laughing, M. P.s shouted: "Hold your head up." Like a little boy caught out in pleasant mischief, Winston Churchill raised his pouting face to the Mother of Parliaments...
...three months I have not allowed an answer to be given because I was of the opinion that they would stop this mischief," he explained. "We will now spoil the game of these air pirates. . . . If the British Air Force drops 2,000, 3,000 or 4,000 kilograms of bombs, then we shall now in a single night drop 150,000, 300,000 or 400,000 kilograms of bombs, and more...
...Ridicule of authority. "I had seen bands of young Nazis in the streets of Vienna playing all sorts of schoolboy tricks on the police, not out of mischief but on orders and for the purpose of destroying public respect for them." Nazi agents with pocket radio transmitters just strong enough to be picked up by reconnaissance planes were used to furnish the jesting German radio with luncheon menus, etc. of important Allied personages...
...letter about balloon ascensions in Paris that year he wrote: "Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them...