Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music. Short-waved by NBC to Russia and South America, the symphony was dedicated to "the heroic people of the Soviet Union," and played in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Red Army. The new work was stormy and large in scale. It did not seem likely to disturb either of the two kinds of Harris listeners: 1) devotees, who see in Harris' rugged themes a reflection of the energy and spaciousness of U.S. life; 2) skeptics like blind Pianist Alex Templeton, who thought Harris' Third Symphony sounded "like a lot of people moving furniture around...
Jimbo-Jumbo, by now, was so important a news commentator-a man qualified to let everyone know that Germany would never attack Russia and that there was nothing to fear from Japan-that Ma and Pa could overlook his divorce. Briggsy took over everything that might disturb the great mind: his checkbook, his correspondence, the task of feeding his stomach ulcers their diet of hot milk every two hours...
...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...
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...