Word: disquiet
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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...
Honor Balfour cabled: "This is a conference of worried men. From back-street boarding houses to the big, red brick Cliffs Hotel on the upper-class north shore, there's a sense of disquiet, restiveness, uncertainty. Gone are the days when delegates huddled in eager groups in cafes and lounges, heads thrust forward in lively argument, eyes shining in anticipation of a great crusade. Gone are the more recent days when, flushed with new power, they sank into easy chairs and sprawled in happy discussion, secure in the knowledge that an order to their parliamentary steamroller would change...
...with a modern girl, the niece of the now-senile Niven, who comes to stay in the house, in 1940 and meets a young flyer. They, too, are in love but manage to hide it from each other until almost too late. The elderly uncle observes all this with disquiet, and divides his time between hearing the voice of the non-dead Lark and advising the girl to get off the dime and marry...