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Word: wreaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rather than incur these costs, students often neglect the examination and squint their way through to summer vacation where costs may be transferred to the family rather than college budget. While hesitancy may show financial acumen, it can wreak havoc with the eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blind Spot | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Where Is the Middle? The other extreme way of dealing with the situation is to hold the South at all costs. This is exemplified by Candidate Richard Russell, who in all likelihood could hold all Southern states against Eisenhower. But Russell is almost certain to wreak havoc in the doubtful Northern and Western states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Robin Hood & Arithmetic | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

That such a man could have the power to wreak personal vengeance on Senator Margaret Chase Smith because she had the courage to criticize his conduct is deplorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...Europe that could dam the Red flood. U.S. atomic damage to Russia would be strategically effective only if the Red army were forced by large-scale fighting to expend its hoarded oil, ammunition and other materials. Preventive war in 1950 would mean that the Russians 1) could wreak terrible damage on the U.S., and 2) could take and hold Western Europe, which would be worth more to them than all the targets in Russia that the U.S. could destroy by atomic bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: War Now? Or When? Or Never? | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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