Word: interruptive
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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...
...with 91 minutes on prime-time commercial TV, and there will be only one sponsor for each program. Advertisers will not be able to buy small chunks of a minute, or even 30 seconds, as they are now in the habit of doing. Commercials, moreover, are not supposed to interrupt the continuity of a show; they will come at odd times, and playwrights will no longer be required to provide a climax every 15 minutes. In the first week, that benign rule was violated frequently. Almost all the commercials were awkwardly placed, and little effort seemed to be made...
...many of Harvard's finest minds. "To the people who work for her and with her, her vitality, generosity, and warmth in this cool culture are all the more welcome." David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, says. Relaxing in the Faculty Club dining room, she must interrupt herself regularly to greet friends, and one scholar unabashedly gives her a big hug and kiss. "She knows the place, gets around a lot, and reports the news very straight every time." President Bok says...
...deployed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after Israel shot down two of its helicopters. Moreover, Habib was believed to be trying to devise a broader peace plan to eliminate the bloodletting that periodically tears at Lebanon's own internal politics. One reason he may have decided to interrupt his shuttle was to give Saudi Arabia time to arrange an Arab initiative to settle the crisis. As a U.S. official put it, "The Syrians don't want to be seen accepting suggestions from the Americans...