Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...During the summer, Jehn attempted to reassure preceptors that the leadership change would not interrupt any other plans for the program...
...party's right wing has been flapping for months at the prospect of a pro-choice Republican nominee. But Giuliani is also pro-immigration, pro-gun control and sufficiently indifferent to Evangelical sensibilities to interrupt his let's-kiss-and-make-up speech at the National Rifle Association and take a cell-phone call from his third wife, whose very existence is a reminder of how little they all have in common. And yet Giuliani continues to float atop most national polls, with 30% Republican support overall and a 27% plurality among Republicans who attend church regularly. Is it possible...
...Heping is well aware of these seasonal crackdowns. As a prominent human rights lawyer, he is far more familiar than most Chinese with the way the country's authorities ensure that "troublemakers" don't interrupt the Communist Party's carefully managed productions. But as he walked to his car after leaving his law office on September 29, Li had little idea he was about to get a firsthand demonstration of how jumpy the police can be. It may not be spring, but something else was on the calendar...
Graduates will have doubtless noticed that when campus progressives fight the Man, the Man always turns out to be Harvard, or possibly, the United States government. In the last year, protesters deemed it necessary to interrupt a speech by the FBI director—but not one by the former president of Iran. Never mind that one’s administration oversaw the hangings of two teenage boys convicted of sodomy, and of a 16-year-old girl for “acts incompatible with chastity:” Wiretaps are just a step...
...Then the professor pauses. “Any questions?” A stony silence ensues. The scribblers stop scribbling. The surfers interrupt their surfing. The professor looks around, waits a few seconds, but as no questions are forthcoming, he exclaims “Good!” and resumes lecturing...