Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would disrupt "human relations." "It would encourage distrust, suspicion, and arbitrary attitudes . . . remove the settlement of differences from the bargaining table to courts of law . . . inevitably embittering both parties...
Roberts told the packed forum that countries in the U.N. are indulging in the same kind of power politics that they used before the war. "Unless drastic steps are taken, a clash of national sovereignities will disrupt the U.N. and result in war," he said...
...history. His problem was to maneuver the C.G.T.'s six million members so as to take maximum political advantage of the bitter discontent arising from high living costs. The delicacy arose from an inhibition familiar to all Communist leaders: Frachon must not let his workers' drive for higher wages disrupt Russia's worldwide grand strategy. For example, anything approaching a Communist-led general strike in France would force a premature showdown in the French coalition government and stiffen the West's resistance against Russian demands at next month's Moscow Foreign Ministers Conference...
...secret of my success," Roscoe Pound once wrote, "is my blame memory." As a boy in Lincoln, Neb. (he was the son of a local judge), he used to disrupt Sunday school classes by rattling off a chapter of the Bible after only one reading. After graduating from the University of Nebraska at 17, he studied and practiced law, found time to take a Ph.D. in botany and direct a botanical survey of Nebraska (there is a roscopoundia lichen...
...bitter conclusion: "I cannot doubt that if there is a war within the next quarter of a century it will certainly destroy a very great part of the civilized world and disrupt it entirely. Perhaps after all that may be the best solution...