Word: disturbe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contracting in its beat. Had the heart been expanding at the instant of the bullet's passing, it would have been torn mortally. Last week Surgeon Bernard Friedlander at Detroit's Highland Park General Hospital laid open Pugilist Klein's chest with infinite care not to disturb the even pulsation of the heart, plucked out the imbedded bullet. The patient will probably live...
...resignation from the Foreign Ministry would not disturb our international relations or the Little Entente. As an alternative I might resign from my party. My membership in a political party is somewhat of a technicality, since my policies are those of the state as a whole...
...these little criticisms disturb you. It is a critic's unfortunate duty to go on the assumption that no show is perfect; in fact unless we made a few somewhat artificially nasty remarks, you would go on the assumption that, like Mr. Henderson, we were simply blowing yen the goofus...
...poor man were able to exchange epigrams over his dinner table or even over his luncheon (Gor forbid that it should ever go so far as to disturb and tax his early morning breakfast mind), then the world might be richer by one drawing room comedy. But the days of the green carnation have passed and the circle has not yet returned upon itself. So, we find a play which has one mission in the world, to make its auditors turn and say, "Remember that, dear; we'll use it at the Bottomley's tomorrow night." And there...
...peristalsis pounds the blockade, causing terrific distress and often death. Appendicitis is another situation where cathartics may not be used without discretion. Here the appendix has become infected and the human corporation tries to occlude the spread of germs by forming adhesions and putting the abdomen at rest. Cathartics disturb this equilibrium...