Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cargo. Unlike thermometers and other ordinary heat-measuring devices, thermographs do not touch or disturb the objects they photograph. They are useful tools in the growing field of nondestructive testing-analyzing a product without damaging it. Utility companies, for example, are able to uncover dangerous overheating in equipment without interrupting service...
...known to Harvard to have been convicted after the date of an offense committed "in the course of disturbing, interfering with or preventing, or in an attempt to disturb, interfere with or prevent the orderly conduct of the activities, administration, or classes of any institution of higher education...
Washington was loath to disturb the shaky calm that has settled over Jordan since the fighting in Amman ended. King Hussein survived an assassination attempt and the street battles that killed an estimated 250 people. But the conflict was the third such hostile episode between King and fedayeen, and Hussein's power has been sapped by each confrontation...
...conservation organizations have objected that the project would not only flood part of the Black Rock Forest, but would also disturb the local ecology...
Joseph Papp is highly receptive to current issues; he believes that drama should involve itself intimately with subjects that stir, fascinate and disturb people. Out of this concern came the first off-Broadway production of Hair and of No Place to Be Somebody, the black play that won this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama...