Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order would not affect the bulk of U.S. servicemen, who avoid fraternization as a matter of choice. Still less would it disturb those who seriously pursue it. Tokyo now has dozens of "one-night inns" to which any G.I. who wants to can find...
...Roosevelt then tried to contact his Naval Chief, Admiral Harold R. Stark. "Betty" Stark was at the theater. The President decided not to disturb him lest it cause "public alarm...
...Evening Post. At his side was a new-found friend, swarthy, wax-mustached Frederick. Gilmer Bonfils (pronounced bonn-fees), a dashing promoter who had just cleaned up $800,000 in the notorious "Little Louisiana" lottery. To weary Postmen playing poker, Harry Tammen drawled: "Don't let us disturb you but we've just taken over this paper...
...uproar failed to disturb the caretaker at Westchester County's exclusive Blind Brook Country Club. "Nothing will happen to this club," he predicted. "The members will be inviting those UNO fellows over to play golf and everything will be all right...
...that occasion, as on others, King aroused impatience and attracted mockery. It did not disturb him, for, as he says, "it's the result that counts." And he gets results: he has proved his people's confidence in six elections...