Word: wreak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single-handed they cannot resist the proselytizing forces of the priests. Unless they get Advertisa Advertisa will get them. With her terrifying and deadly juxtaposition of jarring colors and incongruous commodities, in a stupefying rush of unrelated station signs, bill boards, highway signs, and white ways, she will wreak fatigue, death, destruction upon their heathen intellects. They will be dizzy forever. The infiedels must seize arms and battle for their last strongholds, the mountains, the forests, the wilds, against Moloch, the chimera, the eighth plague, the tenth muse, Advertisa...
...Senate Chamber, on opposite sides of the aisle. Mumps being most contagious, there was prospect of more mumps among the Senators. Near California's white-crested Johnson sit Indiana's paunchy Watson and Michigan's comfortable Couzens, in either of whom a case of mumps would wreak a startling transformation. Senator Taylor Robinson is the Democratic leader and he might have transmitted mumps to any or all of his nonimmune colleagues in the course of his whispered conferences. A great mump scare, perhaps a mump epidemic, seemed imminent...
...other features of its life also. The current ideas afloat in our colleges, the tutorial system, the division into college units, and freedom from minor restrictions common in early American institutions--are fruits of such contact. Although many of the mental sprigs brought home from abroad would certainly wreak havoc if grafted on the American educational tree, a little instinct for selection can make the foreign contacts all profit and no loss...
...remembered, nor important, but the vanguards met and clashed in war, and soon the whole street was filled with a disorderly miss of rioters, belaboring each other with torches clubs, or whatever came to hand. Mounted police were sent for, and because of their elevated seats were able to wreak able to wrealy crest havoc among the students. Finally some torch beneath one of the horses, who reared and threw his rider. Other took up the scheme, and the cavalry was routed in great confusion. But the reserves arrived, and the students fled...
...reported whether the "No climbing" placard was due to the Tibetans' fear of "the hairy men," malignant creatures who they believe once lurked high up on Everest, descending at times on the villages to wreak havoc, steal women and yaks, slaughter men; or whether the lamas, who are so humane that they will not molest lice and other creatures that take refuge on their bodies, could not bear to have any more human lives endangered and sacrificed on that gaunt tooth of Asia that white men are so perplexingly anxious to ascend. On the third and last expedition, which came...