Word: mischiefism
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...course that psychological decision is not always sufficient. If the Soviet Union had not wasted its resources on subversion abroad, unilateral arms buildups and aggressive international mischief, it might have sustained its oppressive empire for many more years. The unrelenting pressure from the U.S. and NATO that forced Moscow into bankruptcy opened the way for dissent that swelled to overwhelming dimensions. A whole realignment of the geopolitical stars brought Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat to their fateful accord: the end of the cold war eliminated superpower rivalry for the affections of Arab states, and made Israel realize that it could...
...humans in blood and bone, should they not share other characteristics, including intelligence? More specifically, did the earliest humanlike creatures, who split from the ancestors they shared with apes between 5 million and 7 million years ago, already possess a primitive ability to form plans, manipulate symbols, plot mischief and express sentiments...
...takes a whole village to raise a child." If there is no village of strong adults, only warring teenage street gangs controlling a few blocks of city turf, then the gangs may do the child rearing. Kevin Glass was 10, a clever, skinny black kid already moving from mischief to larceny, when he began to ape the swagger of a 15-year-old member of the Neighborhood Crips gang, whose street name was Insane. Among older kids, Kevin had noticed already, it was the "gangstas" who always had money, guns, girls, the wary enmity of cops and the fearful respect...
...long ago, Prince brought mischief, art and passion to his music's sexual excesses. "U Got the Look," performed with Sheena Easton for his sixth album, Sign o' the Times, was blatantly sexual, yet playful and entertaining...
...mother's lover opened her heart to me as few step-parents would do. I shared a room with her when I was young and afraid of the dark. We chatted about mischief and school days and the books we were reading. She would always be interested to hear what I thought of my story. She would then tell me what it was like growing up in Vienna during World...