Word: disruptions
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...Control of economic and financial acts which may disturb international peace. (". . . All people are subject to grave risk, as long as any single Government may, by unilateral action, disrupt the flow of world trade. . . . The world requires that the areas of economic interdependence be dealt with in the interest of all concerned...
Need for Speed. Time is short for the Allies. For good weather from Norway's North Cape to Cairo, they must strike Europe decisively before October. Just as Rommel shook the Americans out of offensive positions in Tunisia, the Germans might daringly attempt to disrupt the vaster forces of an incipient invasion, either in Africa or Britain. Or they may choose to carry out Hitler's published intent, solidify the defenses of western and southern Europe, and prepare yet another summer blow at Russia, where they are still within 125 miles of Moscow. In any one of these...
...grilled gates to the sunburned lawns and neglected flower beds. They caught no glimpse of Gandhi but they felt closer to him. Other Gandhi followers, disavowing the Mahatma's creed of nonviolence, rioted, stoned police, burned state buildings. These uprisings increased as the fast progressed, threatened to disrupt a stable wartime economy on which both British and American armed forces are dependent. But the Raj was prepared to meet this type of unrest. The only effective weapon left to Gandhi's badly battered Congress party was a fast. Sir Reginald Maxwell, Home Member of the Viceroy...
Rommel's thrust may seriously upset all of Eisenhower's plans. The capture of Gafsa would mean the loss of the Allies' most important central Tunisian base. If Rommel (variously reported wounded and nearly captured) widens his assault, he will seriously disrupt Allied communication lines. The decision might be delayed even beyond the first weeks of summer, the time now apparently set for victory and a push toward southern Europe...
...appointed; they might be assassinated, but no one suggested that kingship itself should be abolished. Man was made to worship God, but all else was made to serve man, and would do so as long as man did not give way to his passions and, by becoming a beast, disrupt the universal scheme...