Word: disrupts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists started it by proposing to reunite East and West Germany (TIME, Oct. 8). They hoped to disrupt rearmament, and candidly said so. "You don't have to be a Columbus to make that discovery," said. Red Propagandist Gerhart Eisler...
...home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony, Crosby pitches charm, song and the pathos of his wards, resorts to conspiratorial shenanigans with the help of his editor (Robert Keith), his would-be father-in-law (James Barton) and Tone's repressed cousin (Alexis Smith...
...resourcefulness that U.S. statecraft had all but forgotten. As president of the conference, Secretary of State Dean Acheson personified U.S. determination to get on with the job. His urbane evenhandedness and parliamentary precision provided all nations with a right to be heard, provided none with a right to disrupt...
Many businessmen, particularly small ones who had got crowded out in the scramble, welcomed CMP's extension. At best, they thought it might get them more supplies, at worst create no greater confusion than now exists. Others, who had seen CMP disrupt their long-standing relationships with suppliers, feared that the move would pinch them still more. "CMP is an impossible and ill-starred undertaking," said Ford Vice President Irving A. Duffy. "Who can judge how much steel should be allocated for manufacturing hairpins, bobby pins, ash cans and thousands of other civilian items? Who can possibly possess...
...help to you." At week's end Firth & Brown had only three directors left, two of them recent government appointees. ". . . The company as a continuous living organism," said the London Times, "has . . . lost its identity." Britons worried that such firings would rob the industry of its best men, disrupt the production of Britain's badly needed 16 million tons of steel a year. Unruffled, State Steel Boss Hardie planned further shakeups...