Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alfred Hitchcock, round, restless British cinema director, famed for his movie chillers (The 39 Steps, Rebecca, etc.), revealed that their audience-paralyzing secret was a thing called "the McGuffin."* Said he: "The McGuffin is the thing the hero chases, the thing the picture is all about ... it is very necessary...
Women had never given him comfort or peace. In the orphanage, in the Navy, in these last months of drifting, they had always subtly domineered over him. Before his wife left him, he had cut her with a razor. He was restless tonight, and lonely. Suddenly he made up his mind to get drunk and stay drunk. Before he went out he put his safety razor in his pocket. Even on a binge, he liked to stay neatly shaved...
...nonsmoker, he works off his pent-up energy in little restless gestures and movements, like a race horse...
...restless traveler between seasons, he is known and feared in the kitchens of Italian restaurants from Manhattan's Del Pezzo's to San Francisco's Fior d'Italia. On a recent trip to Los Angeles he was met by the proprietor at the door of Victor Hugo's, his favorite local eating place...
...consequences for Europe might not be so apparent to Washington as they were to London and Moscow; 2) Russia's slice of occupied Germany would consist chiefly of the Junker and a large docile peasant population-manpower for rebuilding Russia's destroyed cities. Britain would receive the restless proletarian population of the ports and the industrial Ruhr and Rhine...