Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause celebre that received national publicity was the "Gilbert-Poor Affair." "The evening was warm," Time magazine said later. "The Yard, as ever on such spring evenings, was restless. Two Harvard freshman strolled down to the Charle's grassy banks. They were Peter Varnum Poor, son of the famed Painter Henry Varnum Poor, and craig Philip Gilbert, son of a Manhattan lawyer. A group of high school boys shouted at them, but they paid no attention...
...Crest. Then, in 1934, the great opportunity beckoned. The Roosevelt landslide of 1932 had shaken Republicanism to its foundations. In rural Wisconsin, prices and incomes were down. When the La Follettes left the G.O.P. to found the Wisconsin Progressive Party, the restless voters rallied solidly behind them. By 1936 most of Wisconsin's state officers were Progressives, and the new party boasted Bob Jr. in the Senate, seven men in Congress, 16 in the State Senate and 48 in the State Assembly...
...Netherlands and Belgium were allowed to drift through a year of chaotic "peace." Spain was an embarrassing problem. Even U.S.-British relations had soured over the bungled preparations for the British loan. In the Americas, Perón prospered on Washington's opposition. In southeast Asia and Indonesia, restless peoples, driving for freedom, were losing faith in a U.S. which appeared only as an associate of their masters. Russian power waxed, but not all the reasons were to be found in Moscow...
...restless man-that was the way friends on the Harvard faculty described William Allan Neilson. He was 48 when he left his professorship of English at Harvard to become president of Smith College, in 1917. Said a colleague: "I'll give Smith three years of Neilson at the outside...
...Stalin may have had purely Russian reasons for pointing outward toward imagined enemies. Restless Russians have been asking for more food, clothes and "luxuries." Although Stalin in his speech announced that food rationing would soon end, the foreign menace is still his handiest excuse for low living standards...