Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate Palace, heard the Dictator blandly promise to "maintain the same system of democratic order followed heretofore." For the long-hatching plot of Dominican exiles to overthrow him (TIME, Aug. 11, 18) Trujillo had a characteristic answer. Halfway through his oration he paused, barked: "Whoever tries to disturb the peace will find that we are willing to defend it." Right on cue, sirens went off all over the city, and armored cars rumbled toward the Senate Palace in a roaring hint of what might be in store for rebels...
...down at London and have been seeking to implement at Geneva." With the U.S. stand on wool (TIME, June 2) already blocking agreement at Geneva, the restrictive sugar bill was more evidence that the U.S. was all in favor of freeing world trade-as long as it did not disturb any Congressman's constituents...
...that just as dandy as Henry implies? How good is the Common Man? Last week, in the New York Times Magazine, Episcopal Canon Bernard Iddings Bell, who has been around colleges most of his life, indicted the Common Man-and his so-called education-in words meant to disturb the complacent. Wrote...
This was the first ripple to disturb the smooth flow of the tea trade since 1942, when the Japanese overran 35% of the world's sources. Tea still came from India and Ceylon. Though supply was short, the Allies froze prices at the 1942 level (while coffee prices rose 68%, cocoa...
...declined into old age, fewer & fewer new people found their way to the high, white little gallery on Manhattan's Madison Ave., called "An American Place." "I'm glad," he would say mysteriously, "that no one has been in today to disturb these pictures." Some of those who did were frightened away by the proprietor's brooding glance...