Word: misbehavior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Karsch learns that a rocket is heading out of bounds, he can send up a radio signal that cuts off the rocket's flow of fuel. This is usually enough to bring it down in a safe area. For really bad cases of rocket misbehavior, there is stronger medicine: he sends up a different signal and blows off the rocket's nose, which may force it to land near by at low velocity...
...Invite Dispute. It did so in a peculiar fashion. The majority did not pass on the validity of the Chicago ordinance; it objected instead to the way the trial judge had construed the ordinance in his instructions to the jury. He had defined "breach of the peace" to mean misbehavior which "stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest, or creates disturbances...
...divorce so that he can marry his girl friend (Arleen Whelan). Most of the plot complications center around Paulette's efforts to entice MacMurray back into her bed. The three sides of this triangle are more than reasonably heartless towards each other, but they are outdone in misbehavior by MacMurray's sleek companion (Macdonald Carey), who wants Miss Goddard for himself...
...Hichens novel called Bella Donna (forerunner of the stories with spiced-up Mediterranean settings that used to run in Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine), the turgid old yarn has been tried three times before in the movies. The verdict, in spite of its fine feathers, stylish production and highfalutin misbehavior, is guilty-too sluggish...
This letter is in no way intended to be an apology for misbehavior among the Soviet troops. It is merely an attempt to show that the Soviet Army is no different from the American or British Army when it comes to looting and behavior among women. . . . [ARMY SERGEANT'S NAME WITHHELD] % Postmaster New York City...