Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstration "was as peaceful as its pacifist philosophy and about as damaging to the U.S. image throughout the world as a blow from the daffodils the marchers carried." This was the intention of the demonstration, and is more than I can say for the violent handful who tried to disrupt the "mobilization" with paint, eggs and steel rods-some of which hit disabled veterans of other U.S. conflicts quietly demonstrating their reservations on this...
...forcible method of staffing the army will disrupt lives and the President ought to limit that disruption whenever possible. The Commission suggested that a study be conducted to see if men who had been called for duty might not be able to choose the time they entered the service. Thus a man notified at 19 that he would have to serve could delay induction until he was, 23 and presumably finished with college...
...Germany, which believes that it has the potential to be second only to the U.S. in building and selling reactors, fears that the treaty would handicap its nuclear development. Furthermore, the West Germans are afraid that the Russians would use the inspection clause to pry into West German plants, disrupt important research on the ground that it violated the treaty, and filch patents. The treaty, said Franz Josef Strauss, leader of the Bavarian branch of the Christian Democrats, "is a new Yalta of cosmic proportions,"-harking back to the wartime conference in which the Americans and Russians decided the fate...
Monro also pressed them, to their annoyance, on whether they would use "disruptive" tactics if Goldberg did not meet their demands. Monro urged them to pledge that they would not disrupt the visit. The Faculty is adamant, he said, on guaranteeing the rights of visitors; "disruptive" demonstrations would be met by severe disciplinary action...
...Brown. "There is no doubt that it would make it a lot easier for them to move anything South." Even more important, the bombing is the American equivalent to Communist guerrilla warfare in the South. It is a way for the U.S. to keep the North off balance, to disrupt its transportation and communications networks, and to remind it constantly that it is engaged in a war of aggression it will not be allowed...