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Word: interrupter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he is popularly viewed as a kind of Catholic Mr. Chips, Hesburgh is now held in such awe by Notre Dame students that they seldom deal personally with him. Student Body President Mike Gassman says he would not dare interrupt the president with ordinary school problems because "he's too important now." Another student says, "Father Ted is usually too busy playing world savior." Both of them are swift to add, however, they think Hesburgh is the main force behind Notre Dame's stress on values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Prince of Priests, Without a Nickel | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...short: see it. Ignore the program. It's a good production of a great comedy. The attempts to evoke the sinister do not quite succeed, because they interrupt rather than support the play's flow. They are too contrived, and we cannot accept them for long enough to have them scare us. But if you're looking for good acting, directing, and production, you can't go wrong...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Some Enchanted Evening | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

Harvard students and library employees are expressing curiosity and confusion over a series of loud noises which interrupt the usual calm in the walk between Widener and Pusey libraries...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Widener Basement Noise Has Mysterious Origins | 2/11/1977 | See Source »

...ailing Mao grew increasingly helpless to halt his wife's machinations. When summoned to Mao's sickbed, the hardhearted Chiang Ch'ing at first refused to interrupt a poker game with her cronies. Later she tried to murder him and following Mao's death, she then plotted the assassination of China's new Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Lady Is a Tramp | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

Both Cantor and Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, said yesterday mysterious noises from pipes at both sides of the room often interrupt their classes in Sever...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Sever Pipes Drowning Out Lectures | 11/20/1976 | See Source »

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