Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wholly impracticable, and indeed impossible. . . . Any attempt to comply, for instance, to promote Negroes to locomotive engineers or train conductors, would inevitably disrupt present peaceful relations with employes and . . . antagonize the traveling public...
...widening use of high-intensity sound waves (some high-sounding, some inaudible) was suggested by the University of Minnesota's Professor Karl Sollner. These waves, which can disperse or collect gaseous, liquid or solid particles, are now used to clear the air of fog and smoke, kill or disrupt germs, impregnate aluminum with microscopic lead particles, create fine-grained photographic emulsions...
MURDER RENTS A ROOM - Sara Elizabeth Mason- Crime Club ($2). A Yankee boarder at a down-at-heel Alabama plantation helps a slow but sure Southern sheriff unriddle two murders that disrupt the peace of a poor, proud family. Crime, romance, authentic Southern atmosphere and rule-of-thumb detecting are satisfac torily mixed...
Four months ago certain U.S. and British officials met in deepest secrecy to discuss one prime necessity for any invasion of the continent-invasion currency. Since retreating armies usually destroy currency, to disrupt the civilian economy and hinder occupying forces, the officials knew that Allied invasion forces must bring their own currency...
They Tip the Scales. The great value of the escort carriers lies in their ability to break up wolf pack attacks before the U-boats get within firing range. Hitting swiftly, the TBFs and fighters can disrupt the careful coordination, the intricate patterns of attack on which the success of the submarines depends. Small though they are, the escorts are tipping the scales in the fight to get the convoys through...