Word: disturb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporting that the Allies could expect no earthquake of sufficient intensity to disturb the Japanese war effort, L. Donald Leet, assistant professor of Seismology dismissed the tremor in the Sea of Japan two days ago as a "routine, almost sub-normal" quake, of which the Harvard seismographs got a clear record...
...obvious lack of the long listening experience and mature judgment that mark the work of most of his New York colleagues. In addition, the Crimson critic has the consolation of being almost functionless in a practical sense. No matter how many stones he may throw, not a ripple will disturb the bustle and equanimity of the musical world of Boston and environs. He cannot destroy a budding artist nor stir up a nation-wide controversy at the drop of a single deadly phrase. Yet this seeming impotence should, by allowing more freedom than usual for expressing opinions and throwing weight...
...speech after declaring war on the U.S., Hitler had put unusual and savage emphasis on the theme of internal dissatisfaction: "Nobody must expect to live who tries to depreciate the sacrifices made at the front. No matter under what camouflage he tries to disturb this German front or to undermine the resistance of our people or to weaken the authority of the regime or to sabotage the achievements on the home front, he shall die for it." To this, Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels had added his own shrill, suggestive echo: "We still bear the scars from the divisions...
...becomes more deeply involved in the lives of war refugees, the calm, breadth and mercy of Ch'an Buddhism more and more profoundly draw and disturb her. When monkish Lao Peng is so unlucky as to fall in love with her, that only makes things worse. Their difficulties are illuminated by several passages of straight theology which suggest how international is this war's religious revival...
Refugee. In a Chicago court, a farmer charged his wife had made him live in the barn to make room for his mother-in-law, then forced him out of the barn because she was afraid he would disturb a pregnant cow. The judge ordered the wife to take him back when he complained a rooster wouldn't let him in the chicken coop...