Word: interrupting
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...would be impolite and inappropriate [to interrupt the referendum]--as if we're not considering what the students are saying," Epps said...
Fowler should watch television more than one hour a week. If he did, he would not want to abolish the 16 min.-per-hr. limit on commercials. Without that maximum, it would be, "We interrupt these commercials to bring you entertainment...
...while others criticized the rally both for being too emotional and for being held without enough information available on the Grenada situation to prove that the invasion was unwarranted. Then there was the Weinberger speech, where a large portion of the audience heckled, chanted, and shouted, forcing Weinberger to interrupt his speech several times. Observers, liberal and conservative alike, thought the protestors had gone too far this time, and had infringed upon the right of free speech of the Secretary of Defense (or War, as the protestors would have...
...bomb, with the force of about two to three sticks of dynamite, exploded around 11 p.m.-in time to interrupt a previously announced night session on defense appropriations. Merely by chance, the Senate had adjourned early. Had the lawmakers lingered as late as expected, said Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, "undoubtedly there would have been grave injury and perhaps loss of life." Instead, the explosion tore Byrd's doors off their hinges, wrecked a portion of the Republican cloakroom near by and damaged valuable artwork, including oil portraits of the legendary Senators Webster, Clay and Calhoun. The cost...
...adds that many students leave to take advantage of academic or cultural opportunities they couldn't find atop the ivory tower. She also says that most students choose to interrupt their studies after their sophomore year, and the majority only spend a year away from Harvard...