Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
...conflict between duty-to-comrades-and-country (herd instinct) and the instinct for self-preservation may disturb even a well-balanced, man in battle. Under stress, he may suffer from intestinal disturbances and disordered heart rate. A man with poor mental balance may develop hysterical blindness, paralysis, stiff joints, which will genuinely disqualify him as a fighter (hysteria rarely occurs in newly wounded men-presumably because real wounds eliminate them from battle). Another common type of war breakdown is the hallucinatory reliving of terrifying scenes. A psychopath may quit fighting, give way to panic, or commit suicide. Still other...
...pleased to reciprocate the same friendly sentiments you expressed to me and to express my intention of avoiding anything which might disturb our relations...
...French Riviera, Spain and Portugal faced difficult moments. Last week they were all diplomatic smiles toward the U.S. Replying to President Roosevelt's assurances that the United Nations had no designs on their territory, Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco said he would avoid "anything which might disturb our relations in any of their aspects," and Portugal's President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona spoke of "unalterable and confident friendship...
Thus did President General Manuel Avila Camacho address last week's opening session of the Mexican Congress. He was explaining to his people the reason why war reached across wide expanses of oceans and crossed high mountains of prejudice to disturb the siestas of even the humblest peon. He talked of a "new social, economic and international order." He warned that peace, when it comes, "will not endure without a general modification of the methods of labor, without the humanization of the system of commerce, and without an efficient recognition of the rights which each nation...