Word: disturber
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...will not disturb the present top team of military men which is running the war. Like many another member of Congress, he has a feeling of almost reverential respect for General Marshall...
...throwing my weight around. ... I do not . . . find it so. ... Occasionally I sit in on editorial conferences, but I do so strictly as an observer. ... I have no editorial control. ... An anti-authoritarian paper had, of necessity, to be dominated by its own staff." Does PM's excitability disturb him? Field says: "Restraint is not always a virtue when crying injustice needs to be met head on. ... A certain lack of gentlemanliness is a requisite of democracy. Gentlemen are comfortable associates, but they are seldom ... constructive socially...
Like Sherlock Holmes, he used narcotics, to brighten up the dull months of idleness. But he took the cure regularly, never allowed morphine to disturb his meticulous planning. Nevertheless, drugs were his undoing. To get his supplies, in a tight wartime dope market, he forged the signature of a Chicago physician. That was careless. He was arrested (as Major Maclay), sent to a Federal Narcotics Hospital at Lexington, Ky. For months nobody suspected that he was Mr. X, the fabulous forger. After painful checking, the FBI identified...
Some exhibit highlights from the work of a few of the 165-odd Indian tribes who had a fairly complex civilization when Cortes came to disturb them...
...minute whey-faced, invalid Evelyn Heath (Anne Baxter) enters the Proctor home and makes a tender request that nobody move and disturb this perfect picture for just a moment, any perceptive member of the family would have clapped on his hat and sprinted for help. But the Proctors, being merely nice, well-meaning people, are singularly unperceptive...