Word: disrupt
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...United States Olympic Committee attempted to curtail their "political" activities during high altitude training, accused them of trying to "disrupt the team," and then planned to send coxswain Paul Hoffman home for alleged complicity in the Smith-Carlos black power protest the night before the final race. If Hoffman had been judged guilty of conspiring, it is probable that the U.S. would not have entered a boat in the finals since individuals on Harvard's crew were not willing to row without...
...Late. Stratford's airfield proved too small for the big jets. Murphy arranged to switch Humphrey and his entourage to smaller Electras. Word came that 150 New Left students at Trinity College planned to disrupt a noon appearance in Hartford's Constitution Plaza. Calls went out for 200 Yale and Mount Holyoke students to get between Humphrey and the hecklers. The Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., hosts for the housewives' chat, did not have enough mikes or telephones. Murphy arranged to have the equipment installed...
...them. True, they achieved their successes in simpler societies. But in a mass society, everything is so interrelated that small actions may have big effects, all of them widely reported by mass communications In short, today's individual is anything but powerless against The System. He can easily disrupt it-for good...
...concerned about the actions of their students. Determined to prevent rebellion, many are wooing undergraduate affection with offers of participation in a wide area of policy making. But if these opportunities are rejected, many college presidents are prepared to swing new weapons of repression against attempts to disrupt the campuses...
...campus matters, he said, "should be primarily motivated by what is best for Yale, not what will help him attain some other personal, political or ideological objective." At his installation as the new president of Brandeis, Morris Abram declared that "the right of students, faculty or anyone else to disrupt the learning process is no right at all. It is wrong. I reject the modern paeans to violence...