Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tutt v. Talk. Tutt believes the curse of the modern world is the fact that it is governed by talkers ("whose influence has been multiplied a millionfold by the radio"). Metaphysical notions about the nature of the universe, and human life, do not disturb him. Nor is he disheartened by the slowness of man's progress. Though his life is closing in a clouded world, Ephraim Tutt has faith that in the U.S. "the pennants still fly gallantly and the trumpets echo to the challenge of 'Liberty and Equality' and of 'Justice for the Common...
...election-year of 1935 Frank lin Roosevelt's popularity stood at a low ebb) compared to his winning plurality in 1936. The same was true, only more so, in midsummer 1939. In both 1935 and 1939 this did not disturb Mr. Roosevelt : he has always maintained, with simple practicality, that the time to be popular is on Election Day. His political henchmen, such as Harry Hopkins, even planned it that...
When landed, he measured five feet long, but shrinkage has set in and the poor fish isn't his old self. The only worry Harvard scientists have to disturb their elation is the problem of how the shark got from the sea to the lake. It has been established, however, that he did it "aeons...
...Joseph Patrick Hurley, most out-&-out pre-Pearl Harbor interventionist in the U.S. hierarchy. He said the shortage had caused "the greatest leakage which the Church in America has suffered." He did not blame the priests, but accused some of his fellow Bishops in the North of "unwillingness . . . to disturb existing organizations; a persistent inability to face facts; a tendency . . . to engage in negative criticism rather than in constructive collaboration...
...Control of economic and financial acts which may disturb international peace. (". . . All people are subject to grave risk, as long as any single Government may, by unilateral action, disrupt the flow of world trade. . . . The world requires that the areas of economic interdependence be dealt with in the interest of all concerned...