Word: disturbingly
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...Like them, Miss Field's book has enough carpentry to chair an idle haunch through many hours, enough sincere sentimentality to bring moisture to idle eyes and unguentine to idle hearts. In recognition of changed times, it is tinged with "class-consciousness," but not of a sort to disturb the tenderest digestion...
...League baseball for the 1942 season rests peacefully and only the post-mortem reflexes of the Big Three will yet disturb the statisticians. The final Harvard-Yale clash and two Eli-Tiger encounters will come off during the next 10 days and then the book will be closed...
Speaking to the Conservative Party the same day, Winston Churchill had said: "I cannot allow, while I bear chief responsibility, a propaganda to disturb the Army, which is now so strong and solid, or to weaken the confidence of the country and the armed forces in the quality and character of our devoted corps of officers...
Reporting that the Allies could expect no earthquake of sufficient intensity to disturb the Japanese war effort, L. Donald Leet, assistant professor of Seismology dismissed the tremor in the Sea of Japan two days ago as a "routine, almost sub-normal" quake, of which the Harvard seismographs got a clear record...
...obvious lack of the long listening experience and mature judgment that mark the work of most of his New York colleagues. In addition, the Crimson critic has the consolation of being almost functionless in a practical sense. No matter how many stones he may throw, not a ripple will disturb the bustle and equanimity of the musical world of Boston and environs. He cannot destroy a budding artist nor stir up a nation-wide controversy at the drop of a single deadly phrase. Yet this seeming impotence should, by allowing more freedom than usual for expressing opinions and throwing weight...