Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friends at Whistle. For years Johnson kept Garrick out of his famous literary club because "He'll disturb us by his buf-foonery." Wrote Oliver Goldsmith, whom Garrick had rebuffed when he wrote his first play...
Many of his most difficult jobs remain unknown to the veterans they concern. Monro like to think of himself as a "shock-absorber" between the well-intentioned but sometimes confusing directives of Uncle Sam and the individual veteran. He tries not to disturb the latter too often with forms-in-triplicate or progress questionnaires...
...other times visitors tend to disturb the students using the library and will not be admitted except by special permission," Metcalf declared...
...Disturb. It was in Missouri that the bursitis attacked the candidate, the pain centering in his right shoulder. He applied a hot water bottle, failed to take Mrs. Dewey's advice to rub oil on his skin, and ended up with a burn...
...equally concerned with the Ku Klux Klan, Gerald L. K. Smith, and the Communist Party," Ernst declared at the outset. "I'm frankly opposed to stealth and secrecy, with or without nightshirts, in so far as they disturb the free marketplace of ideas in which Americans will make informed distinctions...