Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going back to Nassau to sell her furniture because the Bahamas forbid her to take her inheritance out of the country; 2) playful Husband "Freddie," deported to Havana after the Oakes trial, is not working because Cuba's labor laws governing aliens forbid him to; 3) Freddie "is restless with nothing...
...mind of Santayana is restless and far-traveled; the flow of his thought is never the steady controlled intensity that he admires in the ancients, but glints with unexpected intellectual play over the current-like foam above the rapids of a river. After the long years when the very grace of his writing gave the impression that it lacked substance, his especial gift, intuitive, sympathetic, has come into its own. The ceremoniousness and hospitality of the Latin American mind are his, as is its sudden poetic insights, its brilliant intellectual discoveries that are tossed aside, like a master artist...
Surprised stretcher-bearers found him barely conscious, but showing no fractures or paralysis. Dumfounded doctors gave him morphine and atropine to ease his pain and keep him quiet. In a few minutes he was so restless that his arms and legs had to be strapped to the stretcher. X-rays showed that he had only a compression fracture of one vertebra in the middle of his spine...
...Drinkers are more moody, cynical, argumentative, stubborn, pessimistic and restless than teetotalers. Drinkers feel more misunderstood...
...Those Were the Days get an impression of a nationwide intoxication with applied mechanics. Hiram Maxim's new improvements on electrical devices made equipment obsolete so fast that the electrical companies sent him abroad for ten years, with a contract not to invent anything electrical during that time. Restless, he invented the machine gun (for which Queen Victoria knighted him). When he demonstrated it before the Kaiser, Wilhelm asked to try it out, swung it in a circle, almost killed the whole General Staff of the German Army...