Word: interruptive
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...switching. Snowe placed a frantic call to White House chief of staff Andrew Card, but Card had already gone home. Snowe left a message saying the matter was "sensitive and urgent." She tried Card again in the morning, but his aides said he wouldn't be available until noon. Interrupt him now, Snowe demanded, "even if he's in with the President." Card phoned back minutes later, and the White House finally knew...
...talking about people in the air or in the airports, and not about the vastly greater numbers on the ground who are brutalized as the planes pass overhead. The solution to squalid air travel that experts propose is analogous to the fix (turn up the volume) when loud planes interrupt your television watching. All will be well if you build more runways, more airports, if you schedule more flights, and fling more profit-making, noise-making metal into...
...untimely death of his parents and the handicap his medical condition imposes on him. D is a boisterous, and sometimes obnoxious youth who is looking for some fun (which often means trouble). Trix is the third member of this motley crew; the mini lapses of violent behavior that interrupt his calm and sophisticated demeanor give him the nickname “Schitzy...
...extra perk of her leave, she notes that "I'm going to enjoy snoozing through those lively party nights which otherwise so often interrupt a senior tutor's dreams...
...FAIR] LeapPad Pro talking books ($65) "read" to preschoolers, who can interrupt the story by pointing a "magic pen" at a word to hear it pronounced or at a picture to hear a sound effect. It's better--and cheaper--for parents to do the tutoring...