Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rockefeller's prospects were buffeted briefly by a bizarre report, mentioned by Columnist Jack Anderson last week, alleging that Rockefeller money had been used to finance a "standby" group of "toughs" to disrupt the 1972 Democratic National Convention. The shenanigans were supposedly described in papers contained within seven mysterious boxes of Watergate "documents." This material, once supposedly held by Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt, was said to have been spirited away by a Nixon loyalist named Roy Sheppard following the Watergate break-in of June 1972. Sheppard later said that he burned the papers, but recently there have been...
...pleaded with students at the Sanders Theater meeting no to disrupt the speeches by representatives of the South Vietnamese and other governments. Cox later headed the inquest which led to CRR trials for a number of students who took part in the chanting and clapping that disrupted the teach...
...students are free spirits." At Northeastern, he continues, "students can say anything on their mind," as happened in the episode of the female songsters. "I like that story," he says with a grin, "but I won't put up with nonsense. Classroom time is precious. Once they disrupt one class, they can do a lot." O'Toole says he regrets the "desire among faculty to court popularity. There's a tendency to be soft on students here. I'm the only one to enforce the smoking regulations and I won't let students eat in my class...
...disrupt their meetings? Didn't they try to disrupt ours? [Expletive deleted] They threw rocks, ran demonstrations, shouted, cut the sound system, and let the tear gas in at night...
...grateful for the place to rest and willing to answer any questions. The doctor came in my room--it was the first time I had seen him--holding my folder in his hand. "I see from your file that you are a Catholic," he said, "Does that disrupt your sex life here at Harvard? Maybe you'd like to tell me what's really bothering...