Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latter have no alternative but resistance. If that resistance stirs up unedifying emotions, the same thing could be said of the feelings aroused in the innocent victims of any catastrophe--not only the emotions of fear and terror, but even those of exalted heroism, which, however admirable, inevitably disturb the desirable tranquility of normal life...
...some later time active belligerency is required. Having settled the fundamental issue we must be ready to follow who advice of those military experts who have access to all relevant information. But until the fundamental question has been answered, military experts cannot settle those detailed problems which now disturb the country...
...tools will probably have to be used in cutting the holes in the Widener will for the bridge and funnel connecting Widener with the new building. If possible, workmen will do that part of the job during Christmas vacation, so that the noise of the sir cutters will not disturb classes...
...dispatch which ended Herbert Matthews' two-and-a-half-year stay in Italy was the one in which he said that "the Axis is out to defeat President Roosevelt" (see p. 25). In high dudgeon Benito Mussolini's Government declared that "the dispatch tended to disturb relations between the two countries...
Columnists, editorialists, Republican politicos last week made hullabaloo over Henry Agard Wallace in his dual role of Secretary of Agriculture and Democratic nominee for Vice President. The clatter did not so much disturb as astound Mr. Wallace. He saw no difference in himself before and after the nomination...