Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who, in so doing, gain "merit" to augment their spiritual lives. Second, Udorn, Ubon and the parts of Bangkok that are neon-lit especially to indulge U.S. servicemen are to many other peoples an indictment of Western civilization. American-style nightclubs, restaurants and bowling alleys tend to disrupt longestablished, often exquisitely delicate patterns of life. For this we will increasingly be asked to answer. Third, the insect sauce is delicious with roast chicken...
Even Humphrey's initial opposition to Johnson's successful bid for the Democratic Senate leadership in 1953 failed to disrupt their association. Johnson helped Humphrey onto the Foreign Relations Committee that same year. By 1964, Johnson was confident that his protege was the man "best qualified to assume the office of President, should that day come." Nor was there any doubt in Humphrey's mind that he wanted the vice-presidential nomination...
Cambridge City Manager John J. Curry '19 has appointed a top-level assistant and heir apparent to the City's top administrative post. Many observers viewed be move as an attempt to disrupt a drive to out the 67-year-old manager from office...
...trying to develop a program that will protect each experimenter from the other's mistakes," he said. "In the past one man could disrupt the computer's memory banks and ruin two or three other experiments...
...closing shots, when Franca shoots Pierre in a cafe, Truffaut has the spectators almost comically rise en masse to disrupt your sympathies once again. The director of The Soft Skin will not permit you your comfortable catharsis. Rather you must leave the theatre with the deepest feeling of hollowness which is far more painful and--I believe--honest...