Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lenin early urged British Communists to affiliate with and disrupt the Labor Party. He wrote: "I want to support [Arthur] Henderson with my vote in the same way that a rope supports a hanged man." But all efforts of the Communists were beaten off by Labor's leadership, with the support of the rank & file. Last Communist effort came in 1937 when Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps (whose long-standing friendliness to Moscow was last week honored by Hitler himself as a casus belli} and a handful of followers tried to force the Labor Party into a Popular Front...
Wildcats. Others saw the situation in a somewhat different light. They felt that it was the U.S. that would be put on the shelf, unless labor deloused itself of Communists who were doing their native best to distract and disrupt the nation's defense efforts...
...Their bombing had been exceedingly accurate, although most of the bombs were of small caliber. Therefore, the damage was not permanently serious, but of a nature to disrupt all regular services. The power station was out of order. There was neither electric light nor telephone. The radio station had ceased functioning...
...Roster's approach. They were members of the Engineering Society of Detroit, which is an engineers' clearinghouse affiliated with the local sections of 16 national technical societies, from ceramists to welders. They had several fears: 1) the draft might get too many technicians; 2) private pirating might disrupt defense work (as it has); 3) if industry fails to get full efficiency out of its engineers, the Government might commandeer everybody's specialists. To work out an orderly procedure for getting the right brains into the right spot, and to protect their plants against raiding by competitors...
This situation played right into British and Russian hands. Moscow was out to plague German interest in the Balkans. Britain was out to disrupt Germany's Rumanian oil supply and to hamper spring planting...