Word: disturbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that, however, he added: "I think the federal government should not disturb the economy of our country except when...
When one of his assistants arrived at the Harvard room with the exam papers, the proctors asked him to call MacLeish to find out whether or not the students would be allowed to use their books. The assistant decided it would be best not to disturb MacLeish's rest, so he took the responsibility of deciding that books could be used. Meanwhile, the Radcliffe examiners acted on the assumption that it was a closed-book exam...
...attempts to raise funds have centered largely around interested corporations and foundations which have a stake in the development of Harvard's project. "We have been trying to avoid canvassing alumni in our drive," Katz said, "because we don't want to disturb the regular Alumni Fund procedure...
...those who have long expected a visit, for Eastbourne is a spa where wealthy Britons in the afternoon of life retire to await its end, lapped in the comfort of hoarded memories, expensive motorcars and the fellowship of their own kind. Noisy intruders are seldom permitted to disturb the genteel gossip and endless bridge games that help time pass for the oldsters in Eastbourne. Yet, last week, all of Britain was abuzz with the awful speculation that skulking, sudden death had forced its way into Eastbourne...
...mesons disintegrate in two-millionths of a second, each forming an electron and two neutrinos, and this lifetime is too short to permit thermal motions in the carbon block to disturb them appreciably. When they lodge in the carbon, they are all spinning in the same direction, and under these conditions the parity principle requires that when they disintegrate, they must shoot out the same number of electrons in each direction along their common spin axis...