Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure no one would attend. Sometimes Handel played to nearly empty houses ("My music will sound the better so!" he snorted). Sometimes, the King and his party made up nearly the entire audience. Quipped Lord Chesterfield on leaving a concert early: "I thought it best to retire, lest I disturb the King in his privacy...
...getting the worst of every compromise we make. Money is voted for a 'recovery' program but the measures necessary to recovery on the other side are not taken. An air base is opened in Libya. Marines are sent to the Mediterranean; but again they are enough to disturb Moscow without reassuring Rome, Paris or London...
...Railway King" teamed up with great technicians like George Stephenson, spread arteries of iron through the Northeast and Midlands. Wrote the weekly John Bull: "The whole face of the Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...
...Does unfavorable criticism of the President disturb her? A. After 25 years in politics, she has learned to accept it to a certain extent...
Please Do Not Disturb. When the representatives of 55 nations and some 1,787,436,000 people finally took their places in the Hall at Flushing Meadow, there would be 62 items on the agenda, ranging from the adoption of a U.N. flag to the question of global prostitution. There would be all the old headaches-Palestine, Greece, the Indians in South Africa, disarmament, the veto, the Balkans -and a few new ones...