Word: disturb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point was that R.A.F. minelayers* and United Nations submarines had been able to disturb important German shipping routes. In addition to draining raw materials from Sweden and Finland, Germany uses the sprawling, landlocked Baltic as a highway for transporting troops and supplies to the Leningrad area, the Finnish front and northernmost Norway...
...Society has sound reasons for this course. Peace-loving U.S. Quakers have been split for more than a century by bitter religious differences; only since World War I have Friends managed to bring about something like Quaker unity. They are very reluctant to let any new issue disturb that unity-especially since Midwestern Evangelical Quakers (who are strong on doctrine) still look askance at East Coast Quakers, many of whom are Hicksites who put the authority of the Inner Light before the authority of the Bible...
...Like them, Miss Field's book has enough carpentry to chair an idle haunch through many hours, enough sincere sentimentality to bring moisture to idle eyes and unguentine to idle hearts. In recognition of changed times, it is tinged with "class-consciousness," but not of a sort to disturb the tenderest digestion...
...League baseball for the 1942 season rests peacefully and only the post-mortem reflexes of the Big Three will yet disturb the statisticians. The final Harvard-Yale clash and two Eli-Tiger encounters will come off during the next 10 days and then the book will be closed...
Speaking to the Conservative Party the same day, Winston Churchill had said: "I cannot allow, while I bear chief responsibility, a propaganda to disturb the Army, which is now so strong and solid, or to weaken the confidence of the country and the armed forces in the quality and character of our devoted corps of officers...