Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stampede. Texas Coach Darrell Royal calls him a "superplayer, who hasn't played a bad game in three years." As another coach puts it with telling simplicity: "He just gets out there and stirs folks around." Florida's Youngblood creates a different kind of havoc. Deceptively fast for his size, he reads screens and swing passes so adroitly that he intimidates quarterbacks by his mere presence...
...Bengal, he described the scene: "No vulture, no dog, and even no insects were to be found anywhere. Just heaps of human bodies and carcasses." More than two weeks after the storm had shrieked across the low-lying Ganges River Delta, the enormity of the havoc wrought by its 120-m.p.h. winds and 20-ft. waves could still only be sensed, not measured. Toward week's end, some 6,000 Ansar militiamen and volunteers trudged into the flatlands to begin burying, for $2 a corpse, the rapidly decomposing bodies claimed by what Pakistanis have already begun to call...
Vanishing Field. Exactly how the reversals could have wreaked such biological havoc is a matter of dispute. Some investigators have theorized that the deterioration in the earth's protective magnetic shield during reversals of the magnetic poles allowed an increased amount of damaging solar radiation to reach the earth. More recently, a number of geophysicists have calculated that even if the magnetic field completely vanished during reversal, the additional radiation would not be intense enough to destroy entire species. As a result, some investigators are beginning to think that the changed magnetism itself may somehow have been responsible...
Potential Havoc. Lawyers for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund argued before the court last week that this approach should set a pattern for the South. At a minimum, they said, individual schools should have enough racial diversity so that they are not identifiable as black. The court moved in that direction in a 1969 decision requiring that the proportion of teachers in each of a district's schools substantially reflect the district's overall staff makeup. Although he did not urge the court to adopt a fixed ratio for black and white pupils, Attorney Julius LeVonne Chambers suggested...
...schools. Griswold conceded that the Constitution permits busing. But he argued that the Constitution does not require districts to break up segregated neighborhood schools if this would involve long bus trips and massive numbers of young children. Chief Justice Warren Burger implied that attempting such a breakup could cause havoc in cities like Washington, where the school population is 94% black...