Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rugby week has its drawbacks. For one thing the teams must interrupt their revelries to compete just often enough to be permanently exhausted. For another, the coral sand on the rugby field is abrasive and causes painfully skinned knees when the players fall forward. They also fall backward...
...young war veteran, broken by his experience, confused in heart and mind, will interrupt your talk about how democracy must be defended at all costs. He will ask: 'That is very nice talk, but tell me about tomorrow. Am I to take a gun and fight for capitalist America?' If you have time, you can go on and explain what capitalist America...
...unlikely, for example, that the changes will include facilities for smokers. As it is, girls studying in the Fiske Room not only interrupt their own studying when they go out for a cigarette, but also distract non-smokers. If smoking were limited to one room, perhaps in the basement, the cost of effective ventilation would not be extravagant and it would be a considerable convenience to all girls. Another universal complaint, which will probably not be fully corrected in the new scheme, concerns the straight wooden chairs. They might have done very well in the more straight-laced days forty...
Should we not return to those happy days when the death penalty was abolished in Belgium?† Is not the abolition of the death penalty a victory of humanity and civilization?" A Communist deputy jumped to his feet. "Don't interrupt me," exclaimed Spaak. "It's hard enough to see my way clearly as it is." When the Regent Prince Charles asked him to form a new government, Spaak resisted: "With the U.N., the chairman ship of O.E.E.C., Western military union and the direction of Belgium's Foreign Office, don't you think that...
Eight Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who plotted to interrupt the Yale game Saturday with a surprise explosion were officially suspended yesterday, and a ninth student implicated in the prank was placed on probation, MIT authorities announced...