Word: wreak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombs were discovered in Germany by Allied commissioners. They were found to be Thermite bombs which do not explode but silently produce one of the hottest known chemical reactions, easily burning through a slate roof. Many authorities on the next war consider that while gas bombs will wreak gruesome horror, more actual damage will be done by Thermite bombs...
...curry favor with the A. F. of L., many a Senator who believed that five billions for relief was too much, that the surest way of killing it was to boost the figure so much higher that the President could not accept it. Shrewd Huey Long, striving to wreak his vengeance on the Administration, succeeded at the last minute in transferring a critical "pair." Result: the prevailing wage amendment won 44-to-43-24 Democrats deserting the President, all but four Republicans deserting the principles of economy...
...Felix Frankfurter -was like a can of TNT dropped into a Washington drawing room. He turned his deep burning eyes on his fellow guests and unleashed his facile tongue for the sport of bating reactionaries. Nothing did he enjoy more than predicting the swift destruction which the Administration would wreak on the established order. When he passed, Tory hearts lay beneath their starched shirt fronts palpitating and bleeding. He was the making of many a party...
...which feels a need for it. But to require a man, in the most skeptical stage of his life, to listen to backward doctrines is injurious in the extreme. He will seek to satisfy the needs religion should fill in other, less beneficial ways; and the results will surely wreak harm to an age that cannot withstand many more drains on the morals, the fairness to its students, and out of consideration for society. Princeton should abolish compulsory attendance at chapel, and give religion a chance to meet the challenge of the times...
When Dartmouth's baseball team comes to town tomorrow for the second game of the Crimson-Green series, Fred Mitchell's Varsity will have a chance to retrieve the 9-1 scalping the Indians handed them last Saturday. But if they do wreak vengeance on the Hanoverians, then Dartmouth's hopes of taking the League pennant will go blowing out into space...