Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present, many weather researchers are far more interested in the effects of sunspots, the fierce magnetic storms on the solar surface, which are often accompanied by the eruption of great flares of immensely hot gases. The streams of particles shot off during these episodes are already known to disturb the earth's magnetic field and disrupt communications. Astrophysicist Walter Orr Roberts, former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, thinks that they also may influence weather, at least temporarily. Among other evidence, he cites an apparent link between periods of minimum activity in the sunspot cycle and recurring...
...season's Tony Award for his portrayal of a homosexual prostitute in Find Your Way Home, is an actor who conceptualizes a role. One can scarcely imagine him on a horse. But he is a spider of infinite guile and smarmy villainy. Moriarty has an uncanny capacity to disturb. It is part of his stage presence and power. One feels that others do his bidding because they are terribly afraid not to. Before achieving the throne he seems neurasthenically preoccupied, but at his coronation he is as playful as a youngster with a shiny new toy. This...
...richest uranium deposit in the world. Assuming that mining rights could easily be obtained from the aboriginal owners, the Australian company quickly signed contracts to sell $60 million worth of ore to Japanese firms. What the mining executives failed to take into account was the aborigines' reluctance to disturb the green ants who live near the site...
Paris turned euphoric after the agreement was announced. The franc rallied in international trading and stocks rose on the Paris Bourse. French Finance Minister Jean-Pierre Fourcade boasted that the deal would mean "fabulous sums of money for our industry." The agreement, however, is bound to disturb other nations. Washington had been urging Western industrial nations to work together in arranging deals with the oil producers rather than proceed bilaterally. Moreover, the sale of nuclear technology does not appear to be limited by strict safeguards against Iran's developing atomic weapons. Thus other Persian Gulf countries, which already fear...
...domain hordes of the indifferent, who call themselves tolerant, and of the uncaring, who think themselves pragmatic and flexible. Such people are apt to congratulate themselves on being superior to those who strive, who get worked up, who agitate for causes, who make demands and air grievances, and who disturb the public tranquillity...