Word: discontentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thailand, a land of green canals, gilded pagodas and 20-ft.-high poinsettias, is headquarters for SEATO. Although the Thais are gentle people and not famous for stalwart struggle in the face of adversity (they surrendered to the Japanese with embarrassing speed in World War II, soon switched sides and...
4. The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck (7)
Summer had come with a rush. On the biggest holiday weekend of the season, highways were blue with the vapor trails of traffic. Eastern beaches were alive with humanity; campers struggled up the slopes of the Rockies, the Smokies and the high Sierra. On Midwestern lakes, motorboats roared over the...
The discontent stemmed from feelings and fears about the position of the U.S. in the cold war-with a crisis in Berlin almost certain to come this fall. Vacationing in Hyannisport with his family, President John Kennedy was apprehensive too. "The President believes that one of his major tasks is...
Outside Paris, the boiling discontent of farmers spread through France, and farm vehicles blocked miles of vacation traffic.