Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although a man of action, who would rather sail a kayak or tame an outlaw horse than see a movie, the general who came to Okinawa was not a restless man. He could sit calmly in a leather chair aboard his command ship, listening to the reports coming in, and occasionally giving an order. If he had his way, man would stay awake 24 hours a day. But since man cannot, he has learned the trick of sleeping for five or ten minutes, then coming suddenly wide awake...
Died. Vincent ("Ben") Bendix, 62, massive, restless, auto-aero parts manufacturer, inventor of the first practical self-starter (1912), founder of Bendix Aviation Corp., president of Bendix Helicopter, Inc. (planning postwar mass production of four-passenger helicopter sedans); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. Despite the vast success of his companies, personal reverses (real-estate projects, a whopping divorce settlement) sent him into bankruptcy...
...wanted him to go to high school. But John had other ideas and quietly stuck to them: he started driving a truck for Gaburo's Laundry. He was big and dark and handsome, except for his jug ears, and he was everybody's friend. He was also restless. At 18 he joined the Army, won a sweater in a Golden Gloves boxing tournament, in due time he was shipped off to the Philippines...
...John was not settling down. After three years he came back with an honorable discharge. He went to work in a chemical plant. But by 1940 he was restless again. He kept telling his cronies that the U.S. would soon get in the war, and that he would be in it, too. He joined the Marines...
Staggers at Six. At four, Richard Wright tried to burn down the house in which his grandmother lay ill. Restless at being kept indoors, he built up a fire with broomstraws, touched off the window curtains, hid under the house when the fire got out of control. His frantic parents thought he was inside, were so relieved and angry when they found him unhurt that they whipped him until he lost consciousness...