Word: disturber
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...entered the royal bedroom carrying a shard. The policeman stationed outside the door had gone off duty at 6 a.m. The footman who relieved him, by custom, was walking the Queen's corgis. Her maid was working near by but with doors closed so as not to disturb the sleeping monarch...
Occasionally a mock show of support is used to taunt the regime. Students who must take military courses at Warsaw University disturb lectures by applauding every mention of the Soviet Union. Theatergoers have proved more boisterous, hooting and clapping at the appearance of actors and musicians who have publicly expressed support for martial law. Many show-business professionals boycott official television broadcasts. Painters now consider public exhibitions to be in bad taste: when the Ministry of Culture mounted a retrospective show of modern Polish art last April, some angry artists demanded that their canvases not be hung...
...midweek Walesa met in Warsaw with Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, who was attempting to mediate between the government and Solidarity. Glemp had already spoken out against the government's bill seeking broader emergency powers, saying that it could "disturb the internal peace and cause a grave social conflict." Following his talk with Walesa, there were rumors that the two might meet with Jaruzelski. But such a meeting was not arranged, and Walesa returned to Gdansk. For his efforts at peacemaking, the Archbishop received a blast from Moscow, which accused the Polish Catholic Church...
Muhammad cut the sleeve from his robe rather than disturb his friend, asleep on the Prophet's gown. Samuel Johnson daily pampered his spoiled companion Hodge with meals of fresh oysters. Victor Hugo cherished Gavroche. Cardinal Richelieu left a generous legacy for the 14 he owned. Napoleon is said to have broken into a cold sweat at the sight of one. In his childhood, Smerdyakov, in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, was fond of hanging them. Thomas Hardy and Thomas Gray wrote poems to them; Hemingway shared dinner with his. Physician and Scholar Albert Schweitzer favored two ways...
Though it is a vision that might disturb some, Hubel welcomes it. "A lot of philosophical questions can be bypassed," Hubel says. Terms like "the mind" or "free will," he adds, are "not valuable in the context of science...