Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students and instructors at the Moscow Aviation Institute last week. After a brief introduction, he jumped straight into his speech, speaking loudly and with no emotion. At one point, the head of the institute started chatting with colleagues sitting at a table behind Yeltsin, prompting the Russian President to interrupt his reading and glower at them. The mood lightened only when Yeltsin, 30 minutes into his speech, practiced a little pork-barrel politics and promised the students better living stipends and free trips home. A smattering of applause. Then Yeltsin pledged to increase the subsidy to the student cafeteria...
...opera has garnered complaints from some students since rehearsals and performances interrupt dinner...
...comic romp. However, the script's multiple flashbacks aim for a wholly different style of comedy. Rather than the absurdism of the central scenes, the flashbacks try to be witty and biting. They unfortunately fall far short of the rest of the play. More serious than the rest, they interrupt the over-the-top momentum of the hostage scenes...
...this spirit of quasi-camaraderie that I must voice my concern over an article which appeared in the paper December 8 entitled, "Lampoon Compers Interrupt Club Even," by Alec E. Permison...
...November 1, Clinton supporters shouted at the White House, "Two more days! Two more days!" George Bush, though, had more than 80 to go, and he seems to be making the most of them. The nagging reminders that he's still president do interrupt nobler dreams (Clinton's ethics code for his transition team as an astounding example...