Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsible boss of U.S. mobilization, Charlie Wilson must expect to take the rap for this delay. As long as six months ago, defense production was obviously lagging; but Wilson was so anxious "not to disturb the civilian economy that defense producers often came in last in the race for scarce materials and skilled manpower. Furthermore, Charlie Wilson thought that he could confine himself to policy matters, let other agencies (Commerce, DPA, Interior, etc.) carry out the job. But the other agencies sometimes worked at cross purposes without firm direction from topside. Now, it looks as if Wilson will need...
...Marino is an independent state and consequently can act as it likes in its own territory. However, San Marino only occupies the top floor of a big building [Italy], to which the staircase leads through other people's property. If the people on the top floor misbehave and disturb the quiet of other tenants, it is the right of the owner of the building to shut the door." Early last year, Scelba slammed the door. Guards, professing to look for dope, made motorists remove their wheels for inside inspection, sometimes dismantled their engines. Delays at the border often lasted...
...days. "We have ... to contemplate," said Dr. A. S. Parkes of London's National Institute for Medical Research, "the possibility of an animal begetting progeny long after its death . . . We have also to realize that a similar possibility will exist for man ... It is one that will disturb deeply many who regard themselves as more than mere germ plasm containers. Time has lost its significance...
Because a couple of hundred years ago Paul Revere rode to spread the alarm that the English were coming, and because tomorrow there will be rowed a great race against the English, let all be warned: No CRIME shall disturb the peace...
Sunspots & Planets. For several years Nelson studied sunspots with his telescope, but failed to find any practical way of using them to forecast magnetic storms. About three years ago, inspired by suggestions of Yale's late Climatologist Ellsworth Huntington, he turned to the planets. His theory: the planets disturb the sun, and the sun disturbs electrical conditions in the earth's atmosphere...