Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British seemed reluctant to take another step that might further disrupt relations with their essential, difficult ally. French General Fernand Oliva-Roget suddenly turned up in Paris, where he denied that his shelling of Damascus had been "indiscriminate." He said that the outbreaks had been deliberately provoked by Syrian police in the hope of British intervention. How much the British had encouraged the demonstrators he would not guess, but he added darkly that the identity of British agents in Syria was "perfectly well known...
...Germans all hope was gone of a blow from the Pomeranian pocket to disrupt the Russian rear. The pocket was collapsing under the hammer blows of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's armies. The twelve-way rail junction of Stolp went down. The Russians ringed Danzig, hatchery of World War II and birthplace of Arthur Schopenhauer, No. 1 German pessimist of the last century (when the pessimism field was admittedly less crowded...
Tactical Purposes. Hitherto Russia had used these officers in a tactical way to issue statements and make broadcasts against Hitler in order to disrupt morale within the Reich, and especially in the German army. What Marshal Stalin promised at Yalta was that he would not reinstate these officers in their old jobs at the head of an unpurged Wehrmacht...
...Roer was the toughest water line in front of the Rhine - the key barrier in this sector which both sides clearly regarded as crucial. The Germans had fought viciously to prevent the Americans even from reaching the muddy shore, and they could be expected to try even harder to disrupt a crossing...
...Just how do the northern lights disrupt the world's electric communications...