Word: mischiefism
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...announcement scarcely was out before the government and other scientists leapt to denounce the findings and stand by their own conclusions that the Soviets are up to mischief...
...1960s. "They had no form of transportation or weapons for use in the field," says Donald Dunn, the Barbados-based U.S. Navy commander who is the liaison officer for the new American training operation. "The British left them at the mercy of anyone who wanted to cause them mischief...
...Ruotolo was killed, and two other officers were wounded. When he was arrested hours later, the accused assailant, George Accosta, 24, turned out to be on parole from a manslaughter conviction; that parole had not been revoked despite a subsequent conviction and a three-month jail term for criminal mischief. The raw brutality of the unprovoked killing, and shrieking headlines in the city's two tabloids stirred many New Yorkers last week to call for an end to a parole system that they think frees dangerous offenders haphazardly...
...station emerge a gruff man, probably the caretaker, and his toothless wife, whose single braid dangles two feet below the point of her kerchief. Also a daughter, her rosy face alight with mischief, and two dogs nearly as white as the snow. The man has the look of a lighthouse keeper whose island of solitude is being turned into a marina...
...White Mischief by James Fox. As the sun sets luridly on the British Empire, circa 1940, Kenya colonials go to pieces in a scandalous, riveting tale of murder and retribution...