Word: disturbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold? Who was the man, who at the moment when British socialism had scarcely begun its momentous job, broadcast views so sure to disturb moderate Britons? To some, slim, aloof Professor Laski is just an "inoffensive scholar" (19 books and innumerable articles). To some, he is socialism's No. 1 intellectual soapboxer. To others, in his own words, he is a combination Guy Fawkes and Trotsky, a "reincarnation of Palmer, the Poisoner...
Political tremors in Sinkiang disturb all the neighboring countries. Behind the current seismic shocks is a history that goes back to 1934, when China, then already started on her life & death struggle with Japan, could only stand by as the Soviet Union virtually set up a condominium over the vast province...
...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...