Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those favoring the contest agreed that it should not interrupt the regular House schedule. They contended that the players not practicing for the Bowl match would lose interest in the remaining league games...
Laughing to Live. Rude bits of action interrupt these yarns. Amid flying swords and javelins, a robber tyrant takes Sita for his spoil, and the once dutiful wife rather likes it. In a war of comic confusion, Rama conquers the tyrant, wins Sita back, and, when his own evil father dies, resumes his rightful throne. The moral of it all? Rama asks as much of Poet Valmiki: "Is there anything that you believe is real?" Replies the poet (and the answer is obviously that of Hindu-Irish Author Menen): "Certainly, Rama. There are three things which are real: God, human...
...questions that were put to him, but he answered most of them and said frankly that he didn't know when he didn't know, and at one point even suggested to the reporters that if he was not responsive to their questions, they should interrupt and say so. The President has always tried to be responsive to questions at his news conferences, but there are some obvious differences now. He is clearly better informed. He is talking more freely about foreign affairs...
...give the illusion that the recipients of the letters were entering the room one by one, hearing the Emperor's orders with their own ears, and then passing from the scene like ghosts. The toiling secretary, scribbling like mad in a desperate shorthand, never dared to interrupt the one-man show, which ended only when the Emperor abruptly shot from the room, took an hour's nap. and ultimately returned with "an overfilled goose-quill" to inscribe a blotty "N" at the base of each transcribed letter...
...Geneva powers, including the U.S., are honor-bound not to interrupt the Communist conquest of the rest of Indo-China...