Word: disturbance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delving into the psychological aspects of being a good handicapper, how to notice the onset of major losing streaks before you are hopelessly mired in them, and how to manage your money at the racetrack with "prime" and "non-prime" bets. All external factors are potentially negative if they disturb your concentration, Beyer states, and that includes drinking and relations with the opposite sex. A great horseplayer must at least be unwaveringly serious in dedication to the sport...
...idea that six vendors may disturb the proceedings of Cambridge's Bicentennial information headquarters works against the whole principle of having the celebration...
...crucial bell that did not sound, however, was the museum's own. Although five guards were in the building during the theft, they had turned off the museum's electronic alarm system for fear it would disturb their sleep...
When a cast is racially integrated, it has been the custom of audiences to pretend that nothing has happened, or to infer that the millennium has arrived. Nonsense. A mixture of black and white can sometimes disturb the texture of a play, as in Odyssey. Or it can enrich the work, as it does in Pippin. In Of Mice and Men, it grants the play a fresh resonance. The interdependence of George and Lennie is far more poignant and tragic than in the original. Indeed, it is doubtful whether the play would have been producible in the old style...
Among us readers are those who wish we could be spared the grosser facts of life. We'd just rather not know, if you please, about Congressman Mills' private matters. They disappoint us, disturb us, make us feel insecure. Oh for those blissful days when the press was less candid about people in the news...