Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after the attempted coup. Big Daddy told the Malire mechanized battalion: "If you are unhappy with me, then kill me or make me resign and don't disturb the people at night by running about shooting." The odds are that sooner or later someone will pick up that challenge...
...West has brought him between $5 million and $6 million-and unwelcome attention. Refusing to give interviews or autographs, he threw pebbles at reporters recently. Home with his family, he pointed to the press encamped on a neighbor's lawn and declared: "It is shameful the way you disturb other people." Then he slammed the window shutters...
THAT ELEMENT is the presence of the white man. Nineteenth century pioneers weren't attracted to the Aleutian islands, but the Alaskan gold rush made the land of the Indian tribes into a white-man's thoroughfare. The Tlingit and Athabaskan art comes to have European influences that disturb the fusion of beauty and purpose that makes the art of the Eskimos so moving...
...disputes. Syria has given strident sympathy to the "liberation" groups that would dismantle Israel as a Jewish state and establish a binational, secular Palestine, and Syria has seldom condemned terrorist actions. Asks Assad: "How could we persuade the dispossessed people they should be content to keep silence and not disturb the world...
Secondly, Hopkins shows how heavily attitudes toward homosexuality are socially conditioned. If Alan were leaving his wife for another woman, she would be dismayed but resigned. It is the social stigma and the half-sniggering, half-pitying gossip of friends and acquaintances that disturb her so deeply...