Word: wreak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golden Greece the Periclean playgoer knew by heart the Pride & Fall theme of classic tragedy. Hubris (???is) was the offense of the honest but haughty mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and arrogantly defied fate. Certain as death, Nemesis followed to wreak the wrathful gods' retribution upon such a presumptuous creature. The hubris-nemesis pattern of drama unconsciously taught the Hellenic lesson of moden agan or moderation in all things. An Attic axiom: "Too much prosperity brings ruin...
...great hope as regards the military situation," the Admiral commented, "lies in the fact that warring powers such as the United States and great Britain could wreak unbearable damage on each other's commerce. People are beginning to see their mutual dependence. The freedom of the seas means the freedom of neutrals to charge from 300 to 2000 percent extra freight for carrying supplies to your enemy, and will never be observed in war, spiritual bonds notwithstanding...
...most our fleet or the British could do towards attacking the respective countries would be to steam across, place the ball of the thumb on the nose, make a disrespectful gesture, and steam back for more fuel", the Admiral remarked. "Each would wreak such havoc on the convoyed commerce of the other, however, that the publics would raise so much hell that the war would be stopped...
Lord Trenchard does know all about airplanes. He was until last week Marshal of the Royal Air Force. In 1912 he taught himself to fly within a week. During the War he organized and commanded the secret air squadrons whose mission was to wreak frightfulness on German cities in retaliation for Zeppelin raids over Britain, a dangerous duty little reported in the British Press. In the army leather-lunged Lord Trenchard was known as "Boom," because of his reputed ability to turn an entire brigade into a column of fours without the aid of a megaphone or relayed commands. Last...
...Provisional President of Brazil a million people milled through the streets, cheered the red-green- &yellow flags of Rio Grande do Sul everywhere displayed, cheered when the Federal sentries at Cattete Palace were replaced by khaki-clad revoluntionaries. From Cattete Palace he loftily announced that the new government would wreak no political vengeances, punish only the criminal misuse of public funds. His formal assumption of office was in minor key. In civilian afternoon dress he descended a flight from his apartment on the palace third floor to a reception room where General Tasso Fragaso, head of the military junta, pronounced...