Word: wreak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unions like this one do more than wreak havoc in their own particular industries; they besmirch the name of the entire labor movement. If allowed to go on as they are now, they will ultimately work their own destruction, but in the debacle they may ruin the drama as an art. Playwright and flyman alike have a heavy stake in cleaning up the mess...
With the 1928 June graduation about to wreak havoc in the ranks of Harvard's sturdy baseball standard bearers of the last three seasons, along comes one of the most powerful Yardling nines in years to lighten the toll of graduation wreckage. Thirteen wins in fifteen starts is their record...
...closing, I suggest that you have your hoodlums look me up and come out here to wreak their and your vengeance on me. I'll be awaiting them. Hail America
...purpose was to wreak final ruin on a section of the German population which had already been systematically persecuted to the brink of ruin...
Second, there is the possibility that once a closed shop becomes established at Harvard, both officials and students will have to deal with a force which, if in complete power, may wreak great damage, even to the point of closing the dining halls. As a free educational institution Harvard can scarcely take the risk of being circumscribed by an outside force. Impractical demands for higher and higher wages by the closed shop, or objections to the employment of non-union workers in other parts of the University, may foster disputes between the two organizations. As a leader in liberal thought...