Word: disturbes
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...Driver's Seat (1970) followed a girl who buys some outlandish clothes and heads south to find a man who will stab her to death. Not to Disturb (1972) thinly describes a programmed murder-suicide contrived by scheming servants in a microcosmic Geneva château that may be the modern world. Now, in a long-awaited book set in Manhattan, where Miss Spark lived in 1966-67, she plonks down a set of characters who are already dead...
...made it clear to Stubbins that the Pusey Library should disturb the Yard's appearance as little as possible. He was especially concerned with the view of the library from the Widener-Memorial Church quadrangle, since Commencement is held in front of Memorial Church and graduating seniors and alumni might be upset about an ungainly building intruding on their view of the ceremonies...
...greatest fear is that the slow pace of progress will be stilled altogether in the next four years, and that the generation which best knows the errors of the past four years will lose its will to challenge what is wrong in America. It is time to disturb the silence which afflicts our generation. The ultimate tragedy would be for us to submit to the despair and cynicism attributed to us and to our predecessors, and become an ineffectual generation lost to the disappointments of the past. President...
Those who say that this election affords little real choice are making a grave mistake. The choice is a real and important one, and for those who find much to disturb them both at home and abroad, it is an obvious...
...find brief reportorial stints stretching into lifelong careers at what they call "the tender trap." It has also been described as "40 freelance writers working under the same roof and (by Boston Globe Editor Tom Winship) as the best newspaper "of its size in the country." Such encomiums disturb the Yankee equanimity of Lawrence K. ("Pete") Miller, 65, owner, editor and publisher of the Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle, who attributes the paper's reputation for class to "accidents of inheritance, age, personality, location, and the like." Whatever the reasons, the Eagle, with a circulation of only 32,000, successfully struggles...