Word: disquiet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prudent to retire to do some badly needed homework on colonial geography. But they pressed the fight, switching the battleground to the Protectorate of Uganda, where Lyttelton fortnight ago dethroned King Mutesa II (TIME, Dec. 14). The Socialists tabled a motion of censure: "That this House expresses its grave disquiet at the handling of affairs in Africa." Unless the Socialists developed a better brief, the Tories stood to win this one too, even though there is in Great Britain grave disquiet at the turn of affairs in Africa...
...recent weeks there has been much agitation over the affairs and conduct of the Student Council. The reason for this disquiet has been strikingly brought home to us in this week's Student Council Poll...
...Zola's Nana, Foe's The Masque of the Red Death and Wedekind's Erdgeist. They were often sexy but never lusty, and Exhibition Director Ritchie, who points out that Charles apparently never meant them to be published, thinks they reflected "a deep unbalance and disquiet in his own nature." Perhaps his watercolors of anemic acrobats in painful poses...