Word: disturber
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...your report to the Board of Overseers, you referred to the "concern lest the availability of large sums for research in the sciences disturb the traditional and, we feel, desirable balance among fields of learning." I know that much thought and attention have been given and are being given to this matter. I have no criticism or complaint about what has been done. Nor am I unduly encious of those whose work has been strengthened because of the needs of the government. I would not hold back medicine and the natural sciences if I could...
...city's remoteness from West Germany does not disturb them; Berliners have always called themselves "island dwellers." But it deeply worries Allied commanders...
...have had to relearn every day this summer. "It won't mean anything to these Negroes," he said. "This is the kind of treatment they have received all their lives. An incident like this one is too commonplace -- too much a part of the simple daily routine to disturb them...
Clouds shift warily about the court-yard, and an occasional plane whines sharply across the sky. It is very cold. None of this seems to disturb the people below, who are revellers enacting a play, and who behave as if they night were indeed in warm midsummer. Their play, although it is not really a complicated one, needs some subtlety and a good deal of spirit to succeed, especially under conditions in which the actors often have to shout to be heard and to fidget to keep from freezing...
...Sense of Service. Such criticism does not disturb John Hohenberg, 56, the Advisory Board's secretary and a 32-year veteran of New York newspapering (World, Journal-American, Post}. "The principal impact of the Pulitzer prizes on American journalism," says Hohenberg, 'has been to develop within the American newspaper a sense of public service." Chances are that despite the impact of the Pulitzer prizes, journalism's sense of public service has always been there. The prizes were founded in an era when such journalistic crusaders as Lincoln Steffens and Joseph Pulitzer himself loomed larger than life...