Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal Rommel had been recalled, possibly to command an army on the Eastern Front. It was said that his Libyan staff was now sufficiently trained to carry on without him. Rommel's smart tactics had been as maddening as the khamsin, but neither Rommel nor the khamsin made restless British troops as furious as a letter seized from a German officer of the 104th Infantry Regiment. The letter gave credit to the English as "coldblooded infighters, arrogant and proud" prisoners, but concluded: "So far his tank tactics have shown no conception of concentration of force. . . . The tactics and methods...
Those who crowded up front saw a pudgy man with cheeks like apple dumplings, blue eyes beneath crooked restless eyebrows, the merest foam-flecking of sandy gray hair on his bald pink pate, a long black cigar clenched at a belligerent angle above his bulldog jaw. From the sleeves of his blue sack coat extended long cuffs, half hiding the small hands folded placidly across his middle...
Haunting the President's restless mind was Manila's lack of air-raid shelters. U.S. authorities expect that if war begins Tokyo will be worse bombed than Manila, but talk about bombing the paper cities of Japan is no comfort to Quezon. In the old city of Manila, walled and narrow, there are no underground shelters, for the water table is only three feet underground. Underground shelters are not a necessity if Manila receives only sporadic bombings, but a greater danger than bombs is fire...
...Moody, restless and erratic, Painter Kokoschka continually complains that he can't find attractive women models who have souls. Once in the early '20s, Painter Kokcschka was so discouraged trying to find a woman he liked that he commissioned a manufacturer to make him a life-size doll, giving exact specifications as to form, color of hair, eyes, etc. When the doll arrived, Expressionist Kokoschka was so disappointed he took it out into the back yard and burned it, meanwhile fending off a squad of policemen who were convinced he was removing traces of a murder...
...seen naval mutiny, strikes, riots, revolution, chaos-during which he was imprisoned for a few days by radical upstarts. In the 19205 he saw a crucifying inflation. In 1931 he saw six or seven million restless unemployed. And he saw in Hitler a potential guarantor of order and prosperity, a holder of the dike against Bolshevist Russia...