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Word: disrupter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says so. His book describes in great detail the immensely ramified activities of the "underground" Communist movement. It describes how strikes in Europe were fomented, and sometimes broken by the fomenter when they conflicted with Soviet policy. It describes the methods whereby a single experienced Communist sailor can disrupt a whole ship by sabotage. It describes how the 1923 Communist uprising in Germany (in which Valtin led a detachment) was organized, then called off by Moscow after fighting began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Collapse | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...White House went Martin Dies, fuming with defiance. Out last week was a 1,000-page Dies Committee report on Communism in the U. S. It outlined the program of the Communist Party, named names, charged the Reds with plotting to disrupt defense industries, destroy the morale of the armed forces of the U. S., discourage enlistments, foment civil war. Popping with ideas, Dies, in Texas, had telegraphed the President for a conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Before Departure | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Immediately there develops an embarrassing situation--a situation equally difficult for the boy and for the coach--a situation that can readily disrupt the complete coordination essential to the team...

Author: By H. R. "Task" Hardwick, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...just a phase of the "master plan" of Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. As head of the Bomber Command, before his new appointment fortnight ago, he had been puncturing Hitler's boasts of German invulnerability with a threefold purpose: 1) to smash production and disrupt communications; 2) to render coastal ports useless as invasion springboards; 3) to crack German morale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Master Plan | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...That wouldn't be too good, as I'm told that it would disrupt the three essential factors of the course, Unity, Unity, and Unity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMEDY STAR LIKES HARVARD, BUT THINKS RADCLIFFE GIRLS MENACE | 10/9/1940 | See Source »

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