Word: disturbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diplomatic niceties did not much disturb a proud little nation that in a decade has fought continuously for its right to exist, and in the process has more than doubled its population, absorbing 915,000 Jews from 20-odd other nations in its proclaimed "ingathering of the exiles...
Bipartisan Criticism Fails to Disturb Adlai...
Tomb & Church. Around 322, Christian Emperor Constantine affronted the wealthy tomb owners by ordering the construction of a great ramp of earth from the side of the hill against which the tombs nestled. Ruthlessly, though with great care not to disturb the dead, most of the tombs were sliced off to the level of the ramp, and their interiors were rammed full of earth. On this ramp Constantine began the construction of the first Church of St. Peter...
...accurately to the solar year) by adding five so-called "unlucky days." Thus they had a fixed calendar year of 365 days. It was nearly six hours shorter than the true year, so they worked out a system of correction (in the 6th or 7th century) that did not disturb the order of months and days in their calendar. This formula was at least as accurate as the Gregorian leap-year correction which was not introduced until...
...embalmed heads of two virgins in a leather bag. When a detachment of President Ngo Dinh Diem's infantry raided one bandit hideout near the Cambodian border, they found a copy of orders from the Devil King instructing his men to kill, sow confusion among the peasantry and disturb rural security. They were told that anyone who killed ten persons would become able to fly, and anyone who killed 20 would be able to make himself invisible as well...