Word: disturbingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role of the dissenter seems not to be a happy one. Court observers notice that Harlan reads his opinions in an increasingly snappish tone. But he has never yet let his displeasure with the majority's reasoning disturb his own judicious approach to cases he is considering. Last month when Harvard University honored him with a doctorate, it saluted him as "a judge's judge...
...scientists offer two explanations, both of them uncertain. Perhaps the passage of a satellite's shadow may disturb Jupiter's atmosphere in some way, permitting warmer lower layers to rise upward and be detected from the earth. Or perhaps the interruption of sunlight stops a photochemical reaction in Jupiter's high atmosphere, making it temporarily more transparent so that radiant warmth from below can escape into space...
...past decade have brought the healthy "reappearance of Walt Whitman as a considerable force in our poetry, as well as the rejection of the objectivity and the metaphysical-symboliste tradition sponsored by T. S. Eliot." Ironically, some of these poets are the very beatniks whose novels most disturb him. Yet they have at least got poetry out of the classroom and "into the cafés: a kind of solution...
Angry Cliffies complained about the location and the design of the new house. Observing that it is in themiddle of a residential district not accustomed to Cliffies, one girl said she was sure that "we'll disturb the neighbors and they'll probably disturb...
...postcards picture it, the Atlantic Ocean off Miami is a land lubber's delight where only the antics of frolicking porpoises disturb the serenity of the Gulf Stream. But there are days, and plenty of them, when the east wind rises and turns the 160-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau into one of the meanest, choppiest patches of water anywhere. Then small-craft warnings go up, and cautious skippers stick to sailing olives in a cozy yacht-club...