Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the sermon, Johnson failed to appear for a scheduled speech at the 100th anniversary celebration of the 650,000-member National Grange in Syracuse, N.Y., largely because thousands of antiwar pickets threatened to disrupt his visit. Grumbled one farmer: "He takes too much guff from people like these kids and that preacher...
...student protests-which in some cases have been quietly encouraged by faculty members-are intended to disrupt Dow's current campus recruiting efforts. Despite the campaign of harassment, however, the company is running at about the same pace as last year in signing up graduating students. At Harvard last week Dow Lab Director Frederick Leavitt was barricaded for seven hours in a conference room by 250 students demanding that Harvard officials ban him from the campus. University officials instead picked up the I.D. cards of the protesting students, pondered whether to punish them...
...approaching the European and British markets. Says Masahiko Zaitsu, European export manager of Nissan Motors, Japan's second biggest company: "Unlike in the U.S., we don't look for any sudden increase in exports. We have to move slowly in order not to irritate these countries and disrupt their auto industries." While Japan's sales to Britain and Europe were up 70% during the first six months of this year, in absolute figures this only amounted to 24,117 cars. By contrast, B.M.C. sold 20,000 minis alone during the first four days of this year...
...execution of this theory depends on the "position responsibilities." Defense is more than just eleven guys trying to get to the ball carrier as quickly as possible. The main job for the players is to hold their areas and disrupt any opponents' moves into their territories. The moves are lateral, along the line of scrimmage, not vertical, into the enemy backfield...
...Jose President Robert D. Clark immediately ordered public hearings on all the charges. As counterthreats against Edwards' life mounted, he canceled a football game that Edwards had promised to disrupt. Clark then conceded that the charges were valid, ordered prompt steps to correct the conditions. "The first step is rational debate," explained the triumphant Edwards, "but the biggest single lever we had is the threat of violence." The new Negro mood means that few college administrators can be confident that the new academic year will be nonviolent...