Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nikolaevich Belishchenko, 36, a career banker who was formerly vice-director of Moscow's Gosbank, says the name refers to the spaceships that the Russians launched in 1964 and 1965. Belishchenko takes pains to allay Swiss fears that Moscow will use the bank to dump gold and otherwise disrupt the tiny nation's financial ties to other Western countries. "The Soviet government wants to trade with all countries willing to trade with it," says he. "We are here to help finance this trade...
Meeting informally every few days, Gordon and Ansara reviewed most of the preliminary issues. Gordon laid out his conception of the Institute and the purpose of the undergraduate program. He was particularly worried that SDS might choose to disrupt McNamara's meetings with small groups of 50 undergraduates each, and that the meetings' usefulness might be destroyed...
Students for a Democratic Society planned elaborately, for days in advance, to make sure that it happened. They wanted to disrupt McNamara's visit, to put him on the spot, and, because they were willing to use force, they succeeded...
...Introspection." Though the news did not ruffle Wall Street (the Dow-Jones average actually rose 0.72 points the next day), it did disrupt Democrats' hopes of a whiz-bang windup to the 1966 campaign. For more than a week beforehand, White House officials had been filtering out information about an electioneering itinerary that would have allowed the President barely enough time in Washington to change his socks before bounding off on a "Boston-to-Austin" barnstorming blitz through more than a dozen states...
Frank supported Dunn's reasoning and added that he was concerned that a demonstration might disrupt McNamara's discussion with the students selected last week. "I find it hard to believe that Harvard undergraduates will refuse a request from a university official," Frank said, "but then again maybe I'm being naive...