Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confiscation seemed certain. Texaco sent its staff families home and prepared for further trouble. For months the Cuban government had refused to allow the oil companies to exchange pesos for hard currency to pay for crude. Remittances were more than $60 million in arrears. Moreover, using Russian oil would disrupt the well-to-pump integration that big oil companies count on for efficiency and profits. The companies decided to stand fast. Last week Castro sent two barges of Russian crude to Texaco's refinery near Santiago with orders to refine or get out. Even before the barges arrived, Texaco...
Note of Anger. One reason that the Communists went to such efforts to disrupt his visit to Japan, Ike felt, was that his good-will missions to Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America had been so successful. "A major aim of international Communism is to drive a wedge between Japan and the U.S." Above all, noted the President in a rare flight of anger, the free world must not let itself be "bluffed, cajoled, blinded or frightened. We cannot win out against the Communist purpose to dominate the world by being timid, passive or apologetic when...
...Government had advised Japan that "postponement" of Eisenhower's visit could be requested right up to the time Ike left Manila. But after that, it would be very awkward. Kishi said the "anti-Ike" demonstrations were clearly the work of international Communism, whose basic aim was to disrupt friendly relations between the U.S. and Japan...
...made it plain that he was still prepared to negotiate, even offered separate bilateral talks with Khrushchev to deal with the problem of espionage. Said he: "I see no reason to use this incident to disrupt the conference...
...church basement, quickly became a civic mover and shaker. He early recognized and utilized the latent strength of Harlem, was able to force such commercial giants as Liggett Drug stores and Consolidated Edison to employ Negroes. When the New York Telephone Co. balked at his demands, Powell threatened to disrupt the system by instructing his followers to dial the operator for every telephone call they made. The telephone company promptly capitulated, began to hire Negroes. "Negroes have got to be radicals," Powell shouted from the pulpit and the political platform. "Only radical measures can liberate...