Word: disquietingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Since World War II began, the U. S. has tried to evade one of the great moral problems of the modern world. Like all evasions, this one gained a momentary forgetfulness at the expense of a deep disquiet. The U. S. tried to evade the problem of supplying or not supplying food and medicine to the people in the conquered areas of Europe...