Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neither mild Spring nights, nor encouragement from the clamorous New York press, not the exhortations of rabid American Legion groups, could disturb the composure of the Princeton man. After persuasive appeals from President Dodds and the Daily Princetonian, students assumed an attitude of both responsibility and moderation...
...Neither mild Spring nights, nor encouragement from the clamorous New York press, nor the exhortations of violent American Legion groups, could disturb the composure of the Princeton man. After persuasive appeals from President Dodds and the Daily Princetonian, students assumed an attitude of both responsibility and moderation...
...Manhattan Adlai Stevenson sat at the desk in his Savoy-Plaza Hotel room and labored over a speech for Minnesota delivery later in the week. Through a connecting doorway, Stevenson could see staffers huddled around a television set (its audio turned low so as not to disturb him, watching Arthur Godfrey's morning program and awaiting the network break-in that would bring word of President Eisenhower's press conference). Until the news broke, Stevenson believed that Ike would not run again. Yet Stevenson was the candidate for the Democratic nomination most favorably affected by Eisenhower...
...Prospective students, who are most often from the zealous areas of each sect, may come in greater numbers to a divinity school which is considered "safe"--one that will not disturb the beliefs they absorbed as children. "Committed men" are a kind of guarantee of "safety...
...band of Turkish agas (military overlords) from their favorite coffeehouse. For this scandal, a handsome, virile Turk named Nuri Bey takes revenge by killing Captain Michales' brother. But the brother, with the last dying thrust of his dagger, emasculates Nuri Bey. The unmanning of the Turk would scarcely disturb Captain Michales, except that Nuri Bey's wife, an almond-eyed Circassian beauty, is already in his blood as if he had drunk a love potion. Captain Michales smothers his desire, but smolders over his comrade-in-arms, Captain Polyxigis, who does...