Word: disquieted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warrant any risks. Haldeman thought that an agreement was a potential liability; he was certain that Democratic Candidate George McGovern's support had been reduced to fanatics who would not vote for Nixon even if he arranged the Second Coming. On the other hand, an agreement might disquiet conservative supporters. The Viet Nam negotiations, in short, were not used to affect the election; the election was used to accelerate the negotiations...
...this history is interpreted by the heart of the Poles, we must come here, we must listen to this shrine, we must hear the echo of the life of the whole nation in the heart of its mother and queen. And if her heart beats with a tone of disquiet, if it echoes with solicitude and the cry for the conversion and strengthening of consciences, this invitation must be accepted...
Although American Jews generally back the Begin government, some disquiet about its policies has surfaced. Two weeks ago, 36 leading U.S. Jewish intellectuals, including Novelist Saul Bellow and Sociologist Daniel Bell, sent an open message of support to an Israeli peace group that had urged Begin to be more flexible in negotiations. Last week in Israel 4,000 members of an organization called Peace Now lined up along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway in a demonstration on behalf of that cause. The gentle protest hardly daunted the peppery Begin, who told a more militant group known as Secure Peace...
...undercurrents of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce Carol Gates story he adapted, In the Region of Ice. Actress Fionnuala Flanagan, though, finds just the right portions of grave surprise and spiritual disquiet in the role of a young nun besieged and baffled by the unrelenting attentions of one of her students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film rhythm and a willingness to give his actors generous creative space. All these qualities were absent from...
...Turin, Fiat's Northern Italian home, Bonfante found a spreading mood of disquiet...