Word: disturbingly
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...foreign efforts to disturb peace in Asia are backed forcefully, Japan herself may be compelled to resort to force...
...airs of spring cooled and freshened by melting snows of New Hampshire, troubled with the sound of nesting birds and sweetened with fragrance from bursting buds and flowing maple sap come to disturb the student at his desk, to stir him to forget book, to promulgate questionnaires if he is learned, to do other things if he is not, it is time for a movie like the Mystery of Mr. X. It combines the detective thriller which diverts the gray board scholar, with the bill-and-coo whimsy comedy so appropriate to our age, to this season. It is smoothly...
With the humility that I can muster, I assure Mr. Anen, that I sincerely doubt if the "Saturday Review" would "not only welcome, but publish a sensible criticism of its policies." Even if my doubt were removed. I should hesitate to disturb the peace in which the "superannuated professors" broad in one of their few stamping grounds. For these professors and their opinions have a real value as Early Americana, and I have always suffered from the collector's passion. H. M. Wade...
...left Italy because I could not bear the Mussolini regime. Although my students were loyal to me in my history classes at the University of Florence, fascist leaders sent blackshirts into my classes to disturb them. Today, it is impossible to teach in Italy without swearing allegiance to the government...
...hurdy-gurdy man and a kindly old cockney woman to leaven the mixture. There is some singing by Irene Dunne which clearly shows how much in love Clive Brook is when he calls it beautiful. But there is nothing new, nothing startling, nothing even mildly lascivious, to disturb the calmness and serenity of this picture of the rehabilitation of a man and a woman on the point of suicide because of marital infelicity...