Word: disruptively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interested in the effects of sunspots, the fierce magnetic storms on the solar surface, which are often accompanied by the eruption of great flares of immensely hot gases. The streams of particles shot off during these episodes are already known to disturb the earth's magnetic field and disrupt communications. Astrophysicist Walter Orr Roberts, former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, thinks that they also may influence weather, at least temporarily. Among other evidence, he cites an apparent link between periods of minimum activity in the sunspot cycle and recurring droughts on the east side...
...chants, which included a call to "destabilize the CIA," plainly could be heard by the participants at the Nieman session, but apparently did not disrupt the meeting...
Harvard, on the other hand, will be at full strength for this meet. "We've finally licked the injury bug," Crimson coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday. "The only thing that's bothering us now are papers and exams, which tend to disrupt practices...
...small crowd of orderly demonstrators picketed outside the Harvard Provision Co. Saturday night for over two hours, despite attempts by some teenagers and Harvard football players to disrupt the picket line...
...prior to some kind of legal conclusion. Why then did he issue the pardon on Sept. 8? Ford did not really explain his sudden change of heart, except to say that he had become increasingly worried that the prosecution of the former President would generate passions that "would seriously disrupt the healing of our country from the wounds of the past...