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...Near Rimbey, Alberta, rescuers of snowbound, frostbitten Alexander Swanson, anxious not to disturb him, hitched a tractor to his shack, dragged it 38 miles to a hospital while Swanson stayed...
...their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
These concerns were not discussed by Yankee's new owner-president, big, genial, tough William O'Neil, General Tire president. Said he: "We are not going to disturb the network. . . . This is an investment. . . . This was a wonderful piece of business...
...things crop up to disturb Timar's sodden conscience. As they travel to their new home, Adèle disappears for hours to parley with a native chief. Then she suddenly goes back to Libreville, begging Timar to wait patiently till she returns. But the lonely Timar has learned that Adèle herself killed the native waiter, who had seen her leaving Timar's bedroom and threatened blackmail. He has also found that her parleys with the native chief were to bribe him to fix the murder on an innocent tribesman. She has gone to Libreville...
...conflict between duty-to-comrades-and-country (herd instinct) and the instinct for self-preservation may disturb even a well-balanced, man in battle. Under stress, he may suffer from intestinal disturbances and disordered heart rate. A man with poor mental balance may develop hysterical blindness, paralysis, stiff joints, which will genuinely disqualify him as a fighter (hysteria rarely occurs in newly wounded men-presumably because real wounds eliminate them from battle). Another common type of war breakdown is the hallucinatory reliving of terrifying scenes. A psychopath may quit fighting, give way to panic, or commit suicide. Still other...