Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without firing the accused ministers and thus tacitly acknowledge that his critics are right, he will doubtless keep his Liberal Democratic Party leadership. Then he could call a general election in January-before the squabbling Socialists and their allies could unite in opposition. The "Red Guards" could disrupt that timetable. Last week they were ripening a banana scandal, charging that government officials had accepted $60,000 for favors to banana importers. Though he seemed confident of his footing, those 60,000 skins could still cause Sato to slip...
M.I.T. became publicly involved in the Inner Belt question last Spring when it attacked one of the proposed alternate routes for the highway, down Portland and Albany Streets. Officials claimed the highway there would destroy several of its buildings and disrupt important research...
...than a million of them lined Johnson's eight-mile route into the city. But as his motorcade approached Hyde Park, several hundred demonstrators were waiting. They were well prepared. Australian intelligence reported that they had intercepted messages from Melbourne Communists advising sympathizers in Sydney on how to disrupt the President's visit. They tried hard enough, pelting the motorcade with toilet paper, black streamers and bomb-shaped balloons, screaming "Go home, fascist pigs!" and trying to hurl themselves in front of the slow-moving limousines...
Reagan accuses Brown of being too far left and talks about a "morality gap" in Sacramento. Brown says Reagan is a right-wing extremist and, if elected, would "disrupt radically the quality of life in California." Some rabid Brown backers have retouched photographs to show Reagan with a Hitler-like forelock and moustache; some far-out Reagan supporters display bumper stickers proclaiming: IF IT'S BROWN, FLUSH IT. Brown insists that the main issue is Reagan's glaring inexperience in government. Reagan retorts that the main issue is the persistent bumbling of Brown...
...issue is simply and clearly whether or not the Governor is willing to reject a route which will displace over six per cent of the City's population and disrupt low-income, integrated neighborhoods." They said they would see Volpe and the DPW soon...