Word: interrupter
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...complaint before. Then, as his own lawyer, he asked Dr. Van Pelt: Is it not true that an anxiety neurosis such as Diana's could have come from an unhappy love affair? It could be, began Van Pelt, but at that point Justice Croom-Johnson chose to interrupt. "A typical example of anxiety neurosis," he remarked, "is the anxiety of the plaintiff in this case, who wants to recover damages." The courtroom rocked in laughter. "Do not use Americanisms in this court," the judge warned Slater as the vaudevillian warmed to a climax in the best U.S. gangster-film...
...interesting point about Harry Truman's decision to interrupt his vacation was: Why? What impelled the President to fly 2,400 miles from Key West to New York and back again, all within 32 hours and all for a 15-minute talk to 3,000 boys & girls...
...Dean was also "compelled to interrupt your vacation and delay my own" in order to warn that Yale was preparing to clamp down sharply on class cutting next year. Juniors and seniors can no longer "manage their own attendance," but will be limited to twenty cuts each term...
Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Language, hopes to be able to complete a project he began 15 years ago. "If there are no more wars to interrupt," he will finish a translation of the diaries of a ninth century Chinese traveler he began as preparation for his first thesis...
Totty manages to interrupt her office work for any Nieman problem. She even anticipates them. Most Niemans don't know, for example, that Totty personally checked all the apartments the foundation had arranged in advance for them...