Word: disquieting
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Outside Italy there were increasing signs of disquiet among neighboring Frenchmen, Yugoslavs, Greeks and Ethiopians. All were remembering earlier experiences with the Italians, wondering what the Big Allies would propose next...
...night long, low desolate sounds were heard in Newark, N.J. The sounds brought a vague disquiet to the hearts of young people returning from the movies, to milkmen beginning their rounds. Here & there a suburban householder, coming home late, could have sworn that he heard under his very feet the melancholy, muffled...
...House of Commons Laborite Emanuel Shinwell rose to demand a de bate on the subject of Britain's aid to Russia. There was "considerable disquiet" in Britain, said he, over the amount and kind of help Britain has sent to her big, badgered ally. Snapped Winston Churchill in reply: "The honorable gentleman should not suppose that he has a monopoly of anxiety in these matters. I do not see any reason at all for an early debate. ..." Later the Prime Minister backed down, scheduled a debate for this week, but insisted no Government spokesman would speak...
...Disquiet in Oslo reached a crest when 2,000 workers in the Akers shipbuilding yards went on strike. They resented Nazi plundering of milk supplies, "depriving mothers and babies" so that German soldiers in Finland could have their pint...
...Frenchmen!" he exclaimed, "I have grave things to tell you! For the last several weeks I have felt an ill wind rising in many regions of France. Disquiet is overtaking minds, doubt is gaining control of spirits. The authority of my Government is made the subject of discussion; orders are often being ill-executed. In an atmosphere of false rumors and intrigues the forces of reconstruction are growing discouraged. . . . The national revolution . . . has not yet forced its way through because between the people and me . . . there has risen a double screen of those favoring the old regime and those serving...