Word: disquietingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice," said Virgil, "is nourished and kept alive by concealment." Last week Yalta's guiltily prolonged secrecy continued to nourish distrust and disquiet among the nations...
...Therefore in the interest of all the United Nations we urge the British and American Governments to raise these questions with the Soviet Government, and we ourselves appeal to our Russian allies to take cognizance of the legitimate disquiet of the American people. We ask this not only because it would strengthen our unity in the war and hasten the day of victory, but because it would cement the friendship between the Russian and American peoples in the crucial years to come...
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...