Word: mischiefism
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...wonder that in democracies as well as in tyrannies, government tends to expand its capacity to hoard information. The U.S., to be sure, took steps to check and curtail this federal capacity in the wake of the excesses surrounding the Viet Nam War, the Watergate scandals and some mischief credited to the CIA and FBI in recent decades. The Government has nonetheless already accumulated a good deal of momentum toward a yet greater capacity for keeping the public in the dark: in an executive order last spring, the Reagan Administration made the hiding of records easier for civil and military...
...could have prevented it if it had not been for "Watergate and all that." Under the banner of détente, he was the last President to conduct a coherent and largely successful policy for managing the rivalry between the superpowers. During his six years in office, Soviet mischief making in the Third World was more restrained than it has been since. The Soviet leaders opened the door a crack in permitting emigration, only virtually to close it later. They signed agreements that imposed rudimentary but still useful rules on the arms race...
Utilizing its new global reach, the U.S.S.R. under Brezhnev also embarked on adventures far from its traditional sphere of interest. During a period when the U.S. was shrinking from overseas commitments because of Viet Nam, the Soviet Union was busy making mischief, on its own and by proxy, in Africa, Indochina and Central America, although it did avoid situations that might bring direct conflict with...
...maligning you in private, he is contemplating doing so. Wherever he is, some assault against your person is being committed. Wherever he has been, your bones lie heaped. He is enormous. In your dreams his shoulders press against your skull. He himself never sleeps. There is too much mischief to be done, too many calumnies begging to be aired. And think: it is you who brought this creature into being. He lives and fumes solely...
...sidekick Larry Mondello looked and acted like a pint-size W.C. Fields. Wally's chum Lumpy Rutherford was just that. And of course there was the incomparable Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond). If Mayfield was Eden, Eddie was the serpent slyly tempting Beaver to bite the apple of mischief. A leering skull dressed in a cardigan sweater, Eddie was smarmy to his elders and sneering to his peers. "Hey, Wally, if your gunky brother comes with us, I'm gonna Oh, hello, Mrs. Cleaver, I was just telling Wallace how pleasant it would be for Theodore to accompany...