Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month, was 320,000 Chinese dollars a picul (133⅓ lbs.). Worried authorities sought to bridle it with a program of ration cards, ceiling prices, warnings to hoarders and manipulators, and assurances of ample supply. But many a rice shop, in fear and protest and in the face of restless queues, stubbornly stayed shut. And unhappy Little Happiness still sang his bitter song...
Algeria. In the oldest of France's North African possessions, and the most "assimilated" to French culture, there is an independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...
...nominally behind what broadsides describe as a "liberal, dynamic program," AVC has for some time not been able to move as tellingly as it might. A normally vigorous executive board has had to content itself with utilizing only a fraction of the pressure potential inherent in the organization. The restless and dissatisfied veteran who pinned his pent-up hopes here is prey to disillusion and embitterment...
These are the jobs of the organizational leaders. The task of the restless and disillusioned membership is harder. They must not follow the easy road to cynicism and negativism. They must realize that the time, not their philosophy, is wrong. And they must also come to know that the clock moves, and that the time cannot always be wrong...
Many retailers are determinedly selling old stock at ceiling prices, and a few are refusing to pay more for new stock. But no organized buyers' strike is evident. For the Dominion's wage earners, price increases already effective or foreseen mean another squeeze. Labor is restless because corporate profits are at an alltime high, taxes are still near the wartime level, and rising prices have offset the wage increases labor got last year...