Word: wreak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...others fear that Skocpol will wreak further havoc in an already embroiled department...
Finally, I realized what I had been grasping for: I wanted to wreak havoc on the federal highway system...
...assumption, that the University knew best how to influence change in a place that even it said needed change. But things haven't improved in South Africa and thousands have died needlessly since those editorials in the spring. And now time is running out. Harvard's divestment wouldn't wreak economic or social havoc on that country, and would be nothing more than symbolic...
...protesters came not to listen but to wreak havoc," Hoppenstein added. "I would have gladly heard them and fielded their questions...
Although both comets and asteroids can wreak considerable havoc if they collide with the earth, they are of very different natures and origins. Asteroids are rocky chunks that range in size from pebbles to a mammoth named Ceres that astronomers estimate to be as much as 600 miles across. Most of them orbit the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter and are thought to be either remnants of a planet that disintegrated early in the life of the solar system or celestial building blocks that never quite coalesced into a planet. Occasionally an asteroid is slowed...