Word: disquieted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was similar disquiet among the trustees over the awarding of the 58th annual Pulitzer Prizes announced last week. The advisory board had recommended a prize in national reporting to the Providence Journal-Bulletin's Jack White, 31, who broke details of President Nixon's minuscule income tax payments in 1970 and 1971. Although his scoop was the first in a series of revelations about questionable presidential tax deductions, White's access to confidential returns was a stark violation of Internal Revenue Service regulations; White has refused to say how or where he secured the Nixon returns...
...painting a strange, silent forest and a Magritte-like nocturnal house, or Khnopff giving a foretaste of the deserted townscapes of surrealism with his drawing of a city abandoned to the sea, or Leon Spilliaert producing a haunted self-portrait, the images constantly predict the sense of solitude and disquiet in which surrealism reveled...
Asked what she found wrong with the country on her cross-country trip, Pat replied, "I didn't see any problems on this trip-I have on others." She seems to feel that what disquiet she once saw has been erased by her husband during his first term. She insists that "you can't find any field where we haven't become better off, and the people know this-they're not dumb...
...state of mind of most physicians today is one of profound disquiet." With these somber words, Dr. Charles A. Hoffman took office last week in San Francisco as the 127th president of the American Medical Association, long a monolithic organization with an extraordinary success record in defending the rights and privileges of physicians. Now many private practitioners see themselves threatened from all sides, and in his inaugural address Hoffman sounded like a man assuming command of a besieged fort...
...March 3, Kaufman sent a letter to Harvard requesting a meeting to discuss cancellation or modification of the plans for the garage, as well as landscaping plans for the area. The letter particularly expressed the tenants' disquiet at being presented with a falt accompli in Harvard's letter of last June...