Word: disquieting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under tight Communist control. One of the last of Eastern Europe's doctrinaire Stalinists, Ulbricht is backed by 167,000 soldiers and security forces. Not since the riots of 1953 has he been forced to cope with a major disturbance. To be sure, there are some signs of disquiet. Some 1,135 East Germans last year managed to flee over the wall to the West. At one point during last week's celebrations, 200 restless young East Berliners paraded down Unter den Linden chanting: "Eins, zwei, drei, Sex!" But they knew better than to shout anything more defiant...
...seldom been reluctant to embrace either technological change or the challenge of great national projects. It is a sign of the questioning times that disquiet now attends a project of just such dimensions: the supersonic transport aircraft. Last week, when President Nixon announced his decision to spend $96 million this year and more than $1 billion later on to underwrite SST development, the cheers came mainly from the manufacturers and airlines that stand to profit most...
Like Alistair Cooke, other observers of American mores see flag flaunting as a combination of patriotism and reaction to a mood of disquiet. "All sorts of traditional values are being challenged," says Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset. "In a certain sense, by having a flag on the car, you're saying that you're not a hippie, you're against campus demonstrations and that you believe in the traditions and values that are under attack." Mark Doran, U.C.L.A. assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, says that "flag waving is a reaction on the part of the good guys...
...thinks that "the American people are understandably wondering why we have to be involved in other nations' security affairs." The result, Wheeler believes, is that "Americans feel like saying 'Let everyone take care of themselves. We have done it long enough for them.' " Another cause of disquiet, he concedes, is the fact that "Viet Nam has gone on so long" with no clear-cut outcome. "This frustration is why people are hitting out at the nearest hitching post, much as the students strike at the universities when that is really not what they...
Things are probably not quite that bad; the French have a taste for hyperbole. But the big Bordeaux daily SudOuest found that 66.2% of its readers polled were pessimistic about how France and its people would fare in 1969. Sensing the country's disquiet, De Gaulle conceded to his ministers at a recent Cabinet meeting that "the atmosphere in France is melancholic...