Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's shipping magnates at the prospect of a big, permanent U.S. merchant fleet ... on the strength of Lord Louis Mountbatten's command in Southeast Asia and the signs that action over there cannot be far away . . . on the Nazis' growing peripheral headaches-in Finland, more restless every day-in Sweden, now openly defiant-in the Balkans, where the rising tide of rebellion is almost reaching the proportions of another front...
Postwar air transport was also up for action and argument. Winston Churchill's new Lord Privy Seal, restless, tireless, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, this week conducted an informal Empire Air Conference, to lay plans for later, more difficult talks with the U.S. and other rival nations...
...Photographs and electric devices to record movements show that the average sleeper, who changes position at least 40 times during an eight-hour stretch, is quietest in the first two hours, then grows progressively more restless...
Teachers and students last week, along with beef, butter and gasoline, were on the nation's list of shortages. Educators were increasingly alarmed. The National Education Association reported that almost everywhere in the U.S. restless 16-and 17-year-olds (TIME, Aug. 2) are withdrawing from school at a mounting rate, asked parents and students to remember that "high officials . . . have urged youth ... up to 18 to build the foundations of a broad education [as their] greatest national service...
Portent. From Egypt last week came a hopeful ray for another dawn: Cairo turned on its lights, first of the war-benighted cities to do so. From Shepherds Hotel, caravansary for restless polyglots, lights blazed out again on the Mid-East mosaic: tanned cosmopolites sipping gin & limes on Shepheard's terrace; rattletrap taxis twisting up dust from the swarming streets; soft-voiced dragomans swishing at flies and barefooted fellahin ignoring them. Dawn's early ray found Cairo unchanged, unchallenging; but the city was free from fear...