Word: disruptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground for future action while seeming to be absorbed in immediate affairs. The second was that Napoleon's cynicism and his belief in the limitless corruptibility of human beings was a deep weakness, blinding him to the possibility of an alliance against him that he could not disrupt. Since few aristocrats could conquer their prejudice enough to study the Emperor carefully, Metternich had a great advantage in the negotiations of the allies, soon maneuvered a weak, twice-defeated Austria into a decisive position among European powers...
...ordered a general election. The Field Marshal swore that if his parliamentary henchmen did not win a majority, his military henchmen would lead a coup d'etat to oust King George. Last week the Kondylis cohorts had not won their majority, but Kondylis' sudden death did not disrupt the cohorts. Almost as though they had known Death was about to strike, the busily intriguing officers, some hours before the field marshal was stricken, were conferring with General Pitsikas, Admiral Economou and General Reppas, all doughty would-be Dictators...
...salary plus expenses he is allotted a lump sum with which he hires assistants and buys supplies, pocketing what is left. That a janitor is no personage to trifle with has twice been discovered by New York's fiery Mayor LaGuardia: once, when the janitors threatened to disrupt his program of free school concerts by demanding $15 fees for services; again, when one of them refused to let him move a voting booth into a school-house after hours...
...again he found her married to a noble Russian pervert, became her lover, recovered his emotional health but not his ambitions, spent an idyllic summer in Germany. Skeptical and enlightened as he was, he could not believe that the War could be serious or prolonged, or that it would disrupt his life with Zena. He learned it when the authorities unceremoniously loaded the pair on a train, shipped them across the frontier...
...could not disrupt the systematized entertainments that were part of the cure...