havoc

• Thus a Parker caper might have comic Dortmunder touches or a Dormunder story might contain echoes of economic havoc, a la —  Detectives Beyond Borders: A Forum for International Crime Fiction
• That this economy depended so heavily on extractive and exploitative ventures that set the precedent for centuries of environmental havoc is an irony-even if Ulanski doesn't hammer the point-that won't escape perceptive readers. —  The Texas Observer: In the Current Issue
• The breach in its embankments is the apparent cause for this havoc, at the Kosi barrage in Nepal. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• Amid this havoc, an imbecilic-looking Louis XIV (Dmitry Kharatyan) takes a bath, the Queen's treacherous Chief of Staff plot a conspiracy, and did I mention they break into song every so often? —  The St. Petersburg Times
• But when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins wreaking havoc, these good-hearted but inept creatures are called into action by the President and must band together as a team to save the world from certain catastrophe. —  OnMilwaukee.com

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