Word: perturb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Yale's year-round practice schedule fails to perturb Bolles. "It's all right by me if they train thirteen months a year," he observed drily. "If, they get a kick out of it, more power to them, but you can only train so long before you reach a physical peak, and after that the chances of going stale are that much greater...
...inflation the value of the native currency is constantly dropping") and his soap-opera similes ("When the sun came up, the Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers as a philosopher. "The moon," he muses, his travels over, "moved in her slow, inscrutable way across the heavens. . . . Nature has a great mystic purpose. But man founders. . . . Man, the one discordant note...