Word: disturbingly
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...wishing to disturb the fiction that he has not yet decided to run again, Johnson refused to declare for the Massachusetts primary. It might have been best for all the Democrats concerned if Senator Teddy Kennedy, a putative Administration supporter, had put his name on the ballot to keep the state's delegation theoretically uncommitted at the convention, but Teddy gingerly refused. House Speaker John McCormack, 76, also demurred. Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, a Springfield native, volunteered to quit his Washington post and run as a standin, but Johnson vetoed the idea, as well as the proposal...
...slander campaign" against the conference. It also became quickly apparent that Moscow had already decided on the time and the place-November or December in Moscow-for a full-dress Communist summit meeting, and expected only a dutiful seconding from the Budapest assembly. As if all this did not disturb the Rumanians enough, the general secretary of the tiny Syrian Communist Party, who is also a full-time resident of Moscow, bitterly attacked Rumania for retaining diplomatic relations with Israel after the June war-the only Communist nation...
...that the conductor is "a necessary evil" who can be crucial to the preparation and rehearsal of a score but should be as unobtrusive as possible in performance. Frequently he quotes the ironical advice of Strauss, who was his mentor: "Go up to the podium and don't disturb the orchestra...
...stubby vessel. Said Rusk: "We cannot be 1000% sure, until we get our officers and crew back and we have a chance to interrogate them and look at the log of the ship." If it then developed that Pueblo had sailed in territorial waters, continued Rusk, "it would not disturb us to let everybody know...
...crew. Shrewdly, he did not use "the hot line" that proved so useful during the Israeli-Arab war last June. The Russians, who have only recently weaned North Korea from Peking's camp and at least part way into their own, are reluctant to do anything that might disturb that delicate relationship. Moreover, Moscow has endured severe criticism from Asia's Communist parties for its lack of militancy in combatting the U.S. presence there, and seems to be hardening its line in the entire area...