Word: interruptive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting, austere Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner endured an almost continuous harangue from Mrs. Wilma Soss, president of the Federation of Women Shareholders, who lectured him on everything from selling appliances to the difficulties of getting to Schenectady by train, peremptorily bade him "keep quiet" when he tried to interrupt. Texaco's Chairman Augustus C. Long was visibly rankled by a woman who accused him of not fighting hard enough in defense of the oil industry's 27% depletion allowance. "When are you going to flex your muscles?" she cried. Long flexed them just long enough to turn...
...disinvited at the demand of Republican Senators Barry Goldwater and John Tower. Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd said he would not come if Walker could not. Columnist David Lawrence wrote that he "doesn't participate in rallies of this kind." Ex-President Herbert Hoover dedined to interrupt a fishing trip to Key Largo. Film Cowboy John Wayne stayed back at the ranch in Hollywood. Young Americans for Freedom had invited them all, but went ahead anyway-and last week packed Manhattan's Madison Square Garden with a crowd of 18,000 at $1 to $25 apiece...
...official State Department stand on the matter, as told to a Senate Committee investigating the Congo situation, is that Tshombe's visit would interrupt "delicate negotiations" now being carried on, and also might precipitate a riot in the United States...
...Musici goes conductorless by choice, does not even admit the existence of a first violinist because it wishes to reproduce as precisely as possible the organization of early Italian orchestras. The musicians interrupt their rehearsals when any one of them feels that another has made a mistake. Because the leaderless method could cause endless bickering, I Musici picks its players for personality as well as technique, spends weeks studying the best soloists in Italy before naming a replacement...
...What did interrupt this continuity were the periodic barbarian invasions which jolted the civilization from its static condition. These invasions coincide with a new force and vigor...