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In some cases, murder, mayhem, and, to borrow a tasteless euphemism from social conflict, linguistic cleansing have been aroused by language—not by vituperation, cursing, and blasphemy but simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time speaking a particular language or dialect.
Missile defense spending puttered along in research mode until July 1998 when a U.S. study warned of the potential for missile mayhem by such "rogue nations" as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
The French at Louisbourg wrought just as much mayhem among them through smallpox and typhus.
(In my edition, this story coincidentally appears right above an ad for a 30-day free trial of TheStreet.com, where they are presumably not selling Nazi literature, but may be implicitly promoting day trading, which, as we've seen above, is suspiciously connected to murderous mayhem in its own way, even though we're not sure exactly how.)
The Guardian of London said in an editorial that Russia's allowing a "token" visit by a representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to the embattled republic "will do nothing to halt the gut-wrenching mayhem in Chechnya, where there remains no prospect of a ceasefire or even of a de-escalation."