Word: disturbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Workers staged mass anti-government demonstrations in the streets of Hankow. Sixteen pushcart coolies accused of "inciting them to disturb general peace and security" were sentenced to death at a public trial (Yangtze Daily, March...
Mother McKenzie, vacationing in Italy now worries that such passages may one day disturb her sons, "now sophisticated young Londoners." If they have a good share of her own temperament, she need not worry. They will probably grow up to applaud her for a fine memoir and graceful evidence of a civilized mind...
...gendarmes roamed the cities, questioning the rich and searching the workingmen. If a suspect was caught with an out-of-date banknote (a symbol used by Istiqlal members for identification), he was likely to be jailed on charges of "beginning the execution of an act whose nature would disturb public order." Guillaume has reinforced the police by bringing in solidly pro-French Berbers from the hills...
...force-which could have been built up into a relief column by air drops-was crawling from Laos in a quarter-hearted pretense at rescue. The contrast sharpens at Hanoi, where General Navarre held his hand; he did not even" try to relieve Dienbienphu, because he feared this might disturb peace negotiations at Geneva. The mood of political Paris favored Navarre's hesitation. Surrounding Paris' attitude was a larger circle of doubt and confusion...
...India-ink drawings on view in Baltimore represent nightmarish characters and situations that fascinate and disturb simultaneously. In Dancer's Whirl, Toledano presents a ball spun by two spidery hands, symbolic of "the world in its present condition of frenzied agitation." Two Half Moons, or The Disturbed Camel, sets against the night sky a haloed camel being worshipped by three Arabs who look rather like melting vanilla cones. Guardians of the Primal, which the Baltimore Museum bought, shows a bird-faced man doing a minuet with a man-faced bird; between them on a string stretches a fanged serpent...