Word: disruptions
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Immediately there develops an embarrassing situation--a situation equally difficult for the boy and for the coach--a situation that can readily disrupt the complete coordination essential to the team...
...just a phase of the "master plan" of Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. As head of the Bomber Command, before his new appointment fortnight ago, he had been puncturing Hitler's boasts of German invulnerability with a threefold purpose: 1) to smash production and disrupt communications; 2) to render coastal ports useless as invasion springboards; 3) to crack German morale...
...That wouldn't be too good, as I'm told that it would disrupt the three essential factors of the course, Unity, Unity, and Unity...
...martial sweep. Its weaknesses are Regler's weaknesses - sentimentality and political obtuseness. Sentimentality makes him glorify the most ill-natured, suspicious, truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter national Brigades, leads him to an ac quiescence that would be dishonest if it were not merely smug...
Some opposition has been voiced to the plan on the grounds that it is inconsistent with the spirit of the House system and would disrupt the "clubby" atmosphere of the Houses. The Committee therefore is unwilling to go ahead with its report until it has found out how undergraduates feel...