Word: wreeking
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PEACEFUL POLITICAL change, even if it is neither immediate nor comprehensive, is unarguably preferable to violence. The specter of revolution and race war in South Africa is horrifying, for it will inevitably be bloody and threaten to wreek one of the most productive economics in the world. Obviously, the group that would suffer most in such a confrontation is the white establishment--whites stand to lose their wealth, their country, and very possibly their lives. And yet, it is the white government that is giving Black South Africans no option but to engage in violent resistance...
...author of more than 14 volumes, including some prose works, Rich won the 1974 National Book Award for the Wreek. Refusing to accept the award as an individual, she co-accepted with poet Audre Lord in the name of all women...
...Menderes government grew more and more oppressive. Good Soldier Gursel began to speak up to the politicians in defense of personal liberties. "I warned them," he declared in his first post-revolutionary speech last wreek, "that they could save themselves only if they followed several steps I pointed out to them." Instead, some months ago. Gursel received orders retiring him as commander of Turkish ground forces before normal retirement age. The general promptly tore the orders up and returned the pieces to the defense ministry. But three wreeks ago, with retirement age upon him, Gursel went on "terminal leave...
...Manhattan fashion magazine. Jayne Meadows and Elizabeth Montgomery had no difficulty proving the deadliness of the determined female, and Nina Foch worked herself into a convincing neurosis as their outmaneuvered victim. Few males could watch this show without a premonitory shudder. In fact, it was a bad wreek all around for the male...
...several overall deferment plans now working their way toward Congress would be an improvement over the present uncertain situation. They all have their shortcomings. Universal Military Service, as proposed by President Conant, might wreek many small colleges if it were not put into effect slowly and carefully. Draft programs relying on grades or aptitude examinations to determine deferments would tend to create a race for grades in colleges and, even more undesirable, a "college elite...