Word: disturbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fall the council hasn't reopened the parietal rules issue lest it disturb the setting of the new buildings: but the problem will probably come up again before...
...argument against steel nationalization now: 1) the record of the industry was magnificent; production had more than trebled in 20 years; 2) for 50 years steel labor disputes had been settled without a major work stoppage; 3) many workers and trades unionists were against nationalization. Concluded Churchill: "To disturb and damage the steel industry . . . is to disturb and damage the whole ["rearmament] effort." He accused Prime Minister Attlee of acting at the dictates of a "fanatical intelligentsia obsessed by economic fallacies...
...know, Bill, I am ever distressed when I have to disturb the calm placidity of your ordered existence," wrote the mighty John. "Yet . . . the rights of American workers . . . should not be bartered to appease your innate craving for orthodox respectability. Any mess you cook up with the C.I.O., if you can cook up any mess with the C.I.O., will . . . have to be eaten by you . . . alone. We do our own cooking...
Also quite agreeable to the notion that stockpiling must fit in with business as usual, the Munitions Board, during 1947 and '48, generally followed Congress's injunction to buy only items that U.S. industry wasn't buying. Reason: it did not want to disturb price structures throughout the world. Then, after reassessing the chances of war, the board got its courage up, began to buy urgently and widely, and set itself a new goal of a $4 billion stockpile by 1956. Again it stirred up a fuss. Three weeks before the Korean invasion, zinc men howled that...
...nothing disturb thee...