Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tunnel. Emergency workers hovered about it uncertainly, shook their heads, spat, conferred in short spurts of strategy. Occasionally they would seek advice from the telephones that seemed to grow out of the cave walls. In the dark unfamiliar tube the men spoke softly, as if not wanting to disturb an accident victim...
...jaunt to the Boston Garden for the ECAC semi-finals was a trip that only eight other freshmen from Brown and Cornell made in this, the first year of freshman eligibility for Ivy League varsity hockey teams. However, the relative minority status of the Crimson three did not disturb their excited confidence...
...begin their chant about conspiratorial press cabals, it might be wise to ask what real influence the press had over the event. This year, probably not much. New Hampshire produced too many words, but only the egregious prattle of the local press lord, William Loeb, could be said to disturb the peace...
...sparse crowds did not seem to disturb the Crimson on Friday night as they won their first match against Baltimore...
Having served under Ambassador Moynihan in India, I can appreciate that you understand his talents and idiosyncrasies. His appointment gives us, at long last, a spokesman of courage and conviction. His forthright manner was bound to disturb the U.N. I suggest that some Churchillian growls of support from Britain's representative would have been more appropriate than the petulant laments of a piqued neo-Chamberlain...