Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disturb us and you will be turned to ashes!" cried the officiating sadhu, a holy man, as Surana's men forced their way through the ring of rubbernecks. The cops attacked a pile of cement slabs with pickaxes and dragged a young Hindu out of a freshly dug grave. A 25-year-old laborer who had become the sadhus' "disciple" only two months before, he was barely alive. But dead or alive, his act of faith would have made the hill a profitable shrine for his masters who would later pass the hat to pilgrims coming there...
...Soviet Union, by Richard Pipes of the Russian Research Center, is a study of this empire in the making. Along with the gross anatomy of acquisition, Pipes combines a more rewarding discussion of the physiology of the empire, tracing the course of the troublesome nationality controversies that still disturb Soviet planners...
...know a thing boys." Appeals to the U.S. consulate for information brought only the reply, "This is a British affair." One reporter who called the police commissioner at 2 a.m. to check a "rumor" that the plane had been shot down was abruptly cut off: "How dare you disturb...
...agreements, pledged themselves (as the U.S. did not) to consult on measures "to insure that the cease-fire agreements are respected." Bedell Smith, looking tired and in pain, read the U.S.'s unilateral declaration pledging the U.S. to "refrain from the threat or use of force" to disturb the armistice, and warning that any renewal of aggression would be viewed "with grave concern...
...point of your article ... seems to be that no man has a right to place his own judgment above that of the state. Anything is "justified in the name of national interest and national survival." Such statements disturb me deeply. How is such a philosophy different from totalitarianism ? My ancestors came to this country as religious dissenters over 150 years ago to escape just such thinking. They wanted the freedom to obey their own consciences rather than the dicta of government...