Word: interrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to play poker every Friday night through Sunday morning, in a room in the old Waldorf-Astoria. The concentration was such that once, when food was sent up, and he chomped a mouthful of broken glass in his lettuce, Webster spat it out without a murmur rather than interrupt the game...
...PEOPLE We Interrupt This Program... A San Francisco electrical engineer named D. Reginald Tibbetts was sitting up late amid the clutter of radio equipment in his bedroom. At 4:27 in the morning (P.W.T.), listening to the dit-dah-dah of fast Morse, he began transcribing a Domei News Agency broadcast: "The Japanese Government are ready to accept. . . ." At the same time, in a white frame house in Portland, Ore., an FCC monitor picked up the same exciting news -Japan was officially offering to surrender...
...Marshal rose to interrupt: "And I refused...
...Bull" Warren's anathemas was late-comers to his classes; rather would he have a student be absent than come late and interrupt. But one day a man in Navy uniform, carrying a bulky bag of books, did come in late and step- ping over scores of legs, reached the long-empty seat in the middle of the room...
...efforts to go underground, airmen could not entirely dismiss the possibility. But they had the last word: the bombs fell & fell, the invasion armies made ready. Whenever it pleased, the Navy could again train its guns on the Jap homeland. The war of words did not, for one moment, interrupt or slacken the fighting...