Word: interruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just been instructed to support a resolution calling for the dispatch of American and Soviet troops to the Middle East if someone else introduced it. This, I knew, would be easy to arrange. I just had time to tell Dobrynin that we would never agree when I had to interrupt for a call from the President...
Harvard coach Lee has been waiting since 1967 for a group of wrestlers that could defeat Princeton, and he finally has found the team. No longer will visions of giant Tigers keep him awake at night and interrupt his sleep...
...candlestick in another, two benches in the third--typify the laissez-faire approach that lets the play, through a remarkably strong and consistent group of actors, do the talking. Interpretation and polish have been concentrated, where they belong, in the difficult timing of conversations in which characters constantly interrupt one another and in the placement of peaks of hysteria in a steady crescendo of tension that could have deteriorated into a two-and-a-half hour endurance contest of lung power...
Spartacist members outside accused the Harvard protesters of attempting to disrupt the speech, which they said had been approved routinely by University officials. "They came here to interrupt the forum, which is clearly their motive," Dean said...
About 15 students delivered a three-minute rendition of Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" to interrupt Casey, who was speaking on the need for a greater intelligence network to countermand a growing Soviet military threat...