Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Muse of History drew the Tsarevich to her, for he had become restless. "Poor little bleeder," she said, stroking his hair, "different only in the organic nature of your disease from so many others who have bled and died. In answer to your question, Madam," she said, glancing at the Tsarina, "I never permit my foreknowledge to interfere with human folly, if only be cause I never expect human folly to learn much from history...
Delhicate Delhi. In time, he became one of England's most prolific landscapists. His epilepsy (the attacks of "the Terrible Demon" were recorded in his diary with little x's) made him restless, drove him and his sketchbook on continuous travels, from "Foggopolis" (his name for London) to the Continent, to the Near East, and finally to making "Delhineations of Delhicate" Delhi. He was constantly seasick, was pelted with sticks & stones by irate Albanians, was bitten by "a centipede of some horror" in Greece, lived "on rugs and ate with gypsies . . . and performed frightful discrepancies for 8 days...
Wyoming Lace. If one man could be the final expert on cattle raising, Bob Kleberg, at 51, would probably be it. He has a restless, all-consuming curiosity about cattle that is never satisfied. He has given his life to the job of running the King Ranch. As he says: "I have to. The bigger a thing is, the easier it is to lose!" On the ranch, he is awakened at 6 a.m. by the traditional King Ranch "good morning"-a cup of coffee brought to his bed. By 7 a.m. he has talked by phone to the foremen...
From his grandfather Lew inherited charm; from his father he inherited the restless drive that has kept him chugging like a jackhammer for 53 years. Lew was born in the little Arizona town of Bisbee, soon moved to Douglas, which his father had named in "the professor's" honor. When Lew was six, the family pushed on again to the Nacozari mine in Mexico, where his father got the nickname of "Rawhide Jim" because of his practice of repairing mine machinery with rawhide. As superintendent of the mine, Rawhide Jim cut wages, drove his men hard, and contemptuously ignored...
This time it was going to be different. Michigan's white-haired Homer Ferguson had the wary air of a schoolmarm with a roomful of restless kids. Under his watchful direction, the Senate War Investigating subcommittee last week gingerly reopened its inquiry into Howard Hughes's $40 million war contracts for one huge flying boat and three XF-11 photo-reconnaissance planes...