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Underlying Disquiet. In this dispute were the beginnings of a real foreign policy debate in Britain. For years now, with the strength of the two great parties almost equal as in the U.S., and with the party in power having captured the politically desirable middle, the opposition has found it hard to seize a good issue. A rigorous repressive policy in Cyprus may yet provide it. At first, Eden's show of firmness uplifted a people disheartened by retreats, but an underlying disquiet remains. The policy of holding "at whatever cost" had the sound of yesterday about...
...defeatist French and their absurd allies like the Caodist "Pope," who had female cardinals and canonized Victor Hugo. Most significantly, he wrote in his diary: "Is there any solution here the West can offer? But the bar tonight was loud with innocent American voices, and that was the worst disquiet...
Personal and family considerations would loom larger; few if any doctors would recommend the presidency of the U.S. for a recovered coronary case; even if Ike were willing to make the sacrifice, the people would view his situation with disquiet...
...Typical responses to amphetamine, a stimulant and not a narcotic, are alertness and a sense of wellbeing; to pentobarbital, well-being and drowsiness; to the narcotics heroin and morphine, disquiet and drowsiness. Anybody who reacts atypically to one, e.g., feeling sleepy after amphetamine, is likely to have unusual reactions to all the others...
...disclosed that he is about to switch to a more advanced means of transportation. Stopping over on the French Riviera on his way to Italy, Steinbeck, minus his mustache "for a change," announced that he will write a play about flying saucers, because these strange craft "symbolize . . . the disquiet of the world today." Added he soberly: "From this idea, I let my heroes go in their attempt to escape the earth. They don't make it, but I let them discover an equation to escape from infinity . . . rather similar to that of [Albert] Einstein...