Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the final communique, his negotiating sessions with Premier Chou En-lai were kept entirely secret so as not to jeopardize the delicate talks, as Nixon later explained to the press. No leaks escaped to upset the routine, no emotions exploded to disturb the surface tranquillity. There was no shoe pounding, no confrontation of raw power, as occurred at the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna. There was none of the Big Daddyism that Lyndon Johnson exhibited in 1966 at his Asian summit in the Philippines. Security was not obtrusive; crowds did not have to be controlled because they rarely gathered...
...nation's downtrodden is matched by his lamenting the need for such tenacity. He reminds those of us who advocate radical change of both our ultimate goals and awesome responsibilities; we fight in the last instance not on behalf of social theories but to serve people and if we disturb society's equilibrium, we are really upsetting the lives of individuals. We had better be sure we are deeply dedicated to pushing on for a better world to replace the old one we try to shatter
...issue at stake does not depend on any of these questions. If individuals of any skin color tended to have disproportionately high I.Q.'s and success in a universally upward-mobile society. I believe Herrnstein would not care. The phenomena would disturb only those who accepted racism, a belief that skin colors really are important...
...noise is not yet loud enough to disturb the sloths munching on the leaves of the cecropia trees, or the river terns that wing lazily over the Amazon's mighty waters, or the secretive Indian tribes that live deep within the jungle. But along the tributaries of the world's largest river the sound is plainly discernible, like a low rumble of thunder in the distance. It is the dull, grinding roar of bulldozers cutting naked red strips through the vast Amazon rain forest...
...notable holdouts: French President Georges Pompidou and Brigitte Bardot. Authorities have forbidden use of the beach or water within 1,000 ft. of Pompidou's holiday retreat at Brégançon near Toulon. As for BB, St.Tropez citizens and officials have tacitly agreed not to disturb the two long high walls that jut perpendicularly out into the Mediterranean from her private haven. After all, it was Brigitte who made the resort a tremendous tourist attraction in the first place...