Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remote northeast, the 280,000 tribesmen know few tools other than their steel-bladed spears, live on little more than a mixture of curdled blood and milk, and have no wealth other than their thirsty herds. But much to the Karamoigongs' distress, all that really seems to disturb the reform-minded regime in far-off Kampala is the fact that they have no clothes...
...Carole's way of living. In the early Tin Pan Alley days she and Goffin, whom she has since divorced, led a hectic life, and had to bring their baby to the office. Now she lets very little disturb the life she has arranged for herself in the Laurel Canyon house in Los Angeles where she tends to her nine-and eleven-year-old daughters by her first marriage; she is expecting the first child of her recent marriage to Bass Player Charles Larkey...
Still, strong doubts are beginning to disturb the cognoscenti, who worry that Sadat will become a Nasser-like strongman. It is an unexpected role. Before Sadat assumed the top office, his chief accomplishment was surviving for 18 years in Nasser's coterie, though he was banished to his native Delta village for five weeks only last summer for using government powers to take over a luxurious villa that his wife coveted. Cairo skeptics suggest that his accession to power merely portends a different sort of police state. "Up till now, the leftist-controlled intelligence tapped the telephones...
...book has a humane, almost joyful candor that might well assist a perplexed parent. But as for critics of sex education, it is a toss-up which will disturb them more, the permissive attitudes expressed in the text or some of Will McBride's black-and-white photos. Among the picture subjects are couples during intercourse, erect penises and ejaculation; there are also less explicit, sometimes charming evocations of conjugal and family love...
...section that may disturb many is the discussion of sin. Considering certain sexual actions sinful in themselves, the book says, is "a belief [that] can lead only to more fear." Some celibates may also take umbrage at the observation that "only a few emotionally disturbed people never think about sex." Ultimately, the judgment that greets The Sex Book may well be the same as the book itself makes on striptease: "It can be argued that [it] serves a social purpose, although it may not be to everybody's taste...