Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This narrow parking space is little better than its predecessor. The noise of the motorcycles will disturb almost as many students as before. Leverett and Lowell House rather than Kirkland, Winthrop and Eliot will suffer now. At least the lot could have been placed a little further away from Lowell up Plympton Street. A parking lot several walking minutes from the latter houses makes it almost absurd for a student there to own a motorcycle, presumably purchased for use on short trips...
...like Exeter, for when the teacher lives in the same building with students and sees them a great deal outside the classroom, teaching becomes a full-time job, instead of an "hours only" occupation. In colleges where the work load is far lighter, the change in curriculum might seriously disturb the balance between research and teaching...
...stalling speed told him that schools of feeding fish (silversides, English herring, mullet) were boiling along the surface, and that stripers might be right behind. At no time did Oscar go more than ankle deep into the surf-believing, with his kind, that it is sinful for man to disturb the striper's water. He scorns newfangled reels that would lessen the challenge...
...were wise enough to rest their case heavily on respectable-but not square-lawyer Matthews, angel of the Gas House. Defending his friends (and his investment, such as it is), he argued that the beatniks were really harmless. "The fundamental rule," said he, "is 'Thou shall not bug [disturb] thy neighbor.' And we have three dirty words: race, creed and color. I'm not going to regulate people's mores . . . not even the winos'." As for the sound of the bongos, Matthews confessed that he was helpless to stop it. "Sure bongo drums are loud...
...drunken father and a distraught mother are enough to disturb any ten-year...