Word: interrupter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steadily declined. On the other hand, the effectiveness of the 80,000-man Communist fighting force, composed of North Vietnamese, Viet Cong, Khmer Rouge and other local groups, has sharply improved. The U.S. expected that the bombing that it resumed on Feb. 9 would force the Communists to interrupt their offensive by mid-March in order to regroup. Instead they showed greater tactical flexibility than ever, cutting off the supply routes almost at will...
...Children are encouraged to visit their father's place of business. There they interrupt proceedings with a ritual cry: "Only one cavity!" Children may also be seen in the early morning, when they ingest the seven essential vitamins every child needs for perfect health. Toward evening they grow pale and cough until a powerful potion brings speedy relief...
...stage animal who has not yet exercised his full territorial imperative. One of Horovitz's problems is that his characters are a shade too volatile and voluble-a playgoer cannot easily enter the heart of a babbling dervish. Another Horovitz problem: a sustained narrative line. He tends to interrupt one story in order to tell another. In Dr. Hero, he is somewhat luckier, since the chronicle is dictated by nature- birth, adolescence, love, marriage, a job, old age, death...
...long we have waited--like ladies--for our turn to speak. Ladies who wait won't get a turn. Ladies--interrupt! --Emmeline Pankhurst, Suffragette...
...society is surely enough to make them a fitting object of study in a liberal arts curriculum, and such study might have the added benefit of offering a perspective on careers that are of major interest to students. In addition, now that 20% or more of our undergraduates interrupt their studies to take a semester or a year away from Harvard, the College can do a great deal to make these intervals more fruitful. By helping to locate interesting and useful jobs and other opportunities away from Cambridge, the College may assist students in gaining a greater understanding of themselves...