Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electric chair stacks all the cards against its occupant. It uses moderate voltage (about 2,000) and current (less than eight amperes), and contacts moistened with salt water, to lower the occupant's resistance. This virtually assures instant death, because moderate voltage is best calculated to disrupt the cycle of the human heartbeat...
...Visible War. In the first four weeks, the robots killed 2,752, injured 8,000. Still, the robot's power to disrupt was greater than its power to kill; the rate of casualties during the worst periods of the 1940-41 blitz was twice as high...
...boards of trade and municipal councils. He said that Quebec's potent, ultraisolationist party, the Bloc Populaire, was the Order's political tool. He said that the Order's ultimate aim "is not only to disunite the people on lingual and religious matters, but also to disrupt confederation, to abandon the more humane North American concept of a large nation composed of different religious beliefs and racial origins and to revert to the old European concept of smaller nations of the same religious and racial descent...
...Thomason, 61, publisher of Chicago's lusty New Dealish tabloid Daily Times and the Tampa Tribune; of a heart attack; in Tampa, Fla. An old college friend of Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, Thomason worked under him for nine years on the Chicago Tribune. Their political differences did not disrupt their friendship until 1941, when in answer to a devastating Times attack on Tribune editorial policy, McCormick printed an editorial "These Jackals Grow Too Bold," referring to "old fat men who sit in comfortable offices fanning hysteria." Thomason spent a whole day devising a response which could be passed through...
...over to dinner at the gloomy, gabled Governor's Mansion. They signed a truce. Puddler Jim, faced with fighting alone, had wandered far astray, looking for votes and support; to Old Guard horror, he had even been making cooing noises at Wendell Willkie. Unchecked, such mavericking might disrupt the Old Guard's cozy desire to send an uninstructed (i.e., anti-Willkie) delegation to the Republican convention. Messrs. Pew, Martin, and Grundy took stock of the situation. Their arms extended, they welcomed back Puddler Jim, not because they loved him more, but because they love disunion less...