Word: disturbers
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...collect insurance on them as "jettisoned cargo." In the parliamentary investigations that followed, slavers vied with one another in painting the slaves' happy life aboard ship. "When sailors are flogged," one piously testified, "it is always done out of hearing of the Africans so as not to disturb them." What shocked Britons almost as much as the treatment of slaves was the lot of white seamen. One captain force-fed a member of his crew on live cockroaches, and floggings regularly resulted in death. Proportionately, almdst twice as many crewmen died as slaves-their mortality rate ran to more...
...cancer and pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. There is hardly any doubt that the Surgeon General has jurisdiction to issue such an order; clearly, it could not forbid smoking itself or the buying of cigarettes, but just as clearly, it is free to control the handouts that it feels might disturb the health of the Air Force...
Next week's Harvard opponents are the powerful Crusaders of Holy Cross. The Crusaders, unfortunately, are a very fine outfit, with a backfield that might disturb Princeton's coach Dick Colman. The Holy Cross quarterback, McCarthy, may be the best in the east...
...mediatrix of all God's grace to man. But a majority of the prelates seem sure that such a doctrine is not "mature" in the mind of the church. Besides, notes one associate of the Pope, "It is not necessary to propose new doctrines which might disturb Protestants and Eastern Christians. We say 'Jesus, Mary and Joseph,' and people think this is some sort of Catholic trinity. This does not presume the right proportion...
What most impresses everyone close to him is Charles de Gaulle's Olympian assurance that the will of De Gaulle will prevail. The instructions for night-duty officers at the Elysee Palace read simply: "Do Not Disturb the President of the Republic Except in Case of World...