Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...martial sweep. Its weaknesses are Regler's weaknesses - sentimentality and political obtuseness. Sentimentality makes him glorify the most ill-natured, suspicious, truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter national Brigades, leads him to an ac quiescence that would be dishonest if it were not merely smug...
Some opposition has been voiced to the plan on the grounds that it is inconsistent with the spirit of the House system and would disrupt the "clubby" atmosphere of the Houses. The Committee therefore is unwilling to go ahead with its report until it has found out how undergraduates feel...
...quarter as large as the U. S. After high German and British bids for Saudi Arabia's oil were in, Japan bid frantically still higher. Standard bid low but kept reminding the King of what German or Japanese-or even British-agents might soon be doing to disrupt his realm if let in on the ground floor. When he finally closed with Standard, His Majesty exclaimed: "Gentlemen, the Japanese offered me twice as much for one-third of what you now obtain...
...Buckley, starting after a long sojourn on the second five, who paced the visitors to their well earned victory. The scrappy guard sank six set shots to disrupt the Blue and White defense, and to these he added two fouls for a 14 point total...
...principal weaknesses of the peace forces in 1916-17 was the lack of a concerted national organization fighting for peace. Is the Harvard Student Union to forget the lesson of the Last War and begin a movement to disrupt the outstanding national progressive peace group of the day? William Rossmoore '40 Member of the Harvard Delegation to the ASU Convention...