Word: disturbingly
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...elephant slaughters might frighten the rest of the game out of the reserves, a month-long pilot hunt proved so successful that the government is now taking bids for the killing of thousands of elephants. Its primary stipulation: that the hunters destroy entire family units, leaving no orphans to disturb the survivors. As in the rest of East Africa, they must also make some provision for disposing of all carcasses...
This amounts to a mere 5% of insurance companies' assets. But it does disturb them, if only because it represents money that they could otherwise be investing at yields of 6½% on corporate bonds or mortgages with 8% return. Thus, to finance 5% loans to holders, some companies are said to be borrowing money from banks...
Clark describes one patient, a man of 22, who could not control "his incessant and explosive repetition of four well-known monosyllabic obscenities loud enough to disturb others in rooms 30 yards away." Not surprisingly, the patient could not hold a job, appear in public or keep girl friends. Clark cured him by getting him to exaggerate his symptoms: he was made to repeat his favorite obscenities as loud and fast as he could until exhausted. Any alternative words or flagging from a metronome-paced cursing speed of up to 200 cusses a minute was discouraged by mild electric shocks...
...hand to enchant her evenings, and Lynda spent her last night doing the town till the wee hours, winding up at a place called Chez Vito, where Georgie, accompanied by five violinists, sang Language of Love in her ear. Meanwhile, down in Nassau the language was "Do Not Disturb" as Luci and Pat hid out in a Lyford Cay villa for four days before emerging for tea with the Governor of the Bahamas...
...foreign music" when he led a sextet in a U.S. Army officers' club in Bremerhaven. By cribbing from the jukebox, he learned all the popular American songs, soon developed a skill for arranging and composing foxtrotting tunes in the big-band idiom. Since his "music that does not disturb," as he calls it, is geared for U.S. audiences, he is virtually unknown in his own country. But Kaempfert does not care; last year he grossed $950,000. Strangers ought to make 'him a millionaire. "Maybe then," says his wife, "they will pay attention to Bert even in Germany...