Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eminence was willing to be photographed. When a representative of TIME called, His Eminence was not informed. And the secretary, believing that he was not interested, refused to disturb him. Also, the cardinal never said, and he has assured me of this, what was attributed...
Likewise, Nervi stated. "Excesses of dimension or disproportionate richness of decoration deteriorate very easily into vulgarity and in any case disturb that sensation of general balance which, as I see things, is the essential foundation of good architecture...
...trouble is that practically nothing can be done about the surplus, which is why the President's excessively public shock seems extremely ineffectual. He has promised not to take any action that would disturb commodity prices, which, by the way, means that he can not liquidate any of the stockpile investment. The best, in fact, that he or the Symington Committee can do is to urge that Congress approve more sales from the stockpile and that future purchases under government contracts be made more consistent with the conditions of nuclear warfare...
...Biography of Rome. He worked with such devouring diligence that sometimes his wife and children would go without supper rather than disturb him. Day after day for 25 years, he would hunt down ruins, and, as his biographer, A. Hyatt Mayor, has written, he would go at them "like an anatomist at a cadaver-stripping, sectioning, sawing until he had established the structure in all its layers and functions." His Roman Antiquities made him famous; his Views of Rome is the greatest pictorial biography ever done of Rome. He worked tirelessly on, defying to the last the new champions...
Jack Kennedy-Man of the Year for 1961-had passionately sought the presidency. The closeness of his victory did not disturb him; he took over the office with a youth-can-do-anything sort of self-confidence. He learned better; but learn he did. And in so doing he not only made 1961 the most endlessly interesting and exciting presidential year within recent memory; he also made the process of his growing up to be President a saving factor for the U.S. in the cold...