Word: restless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he was asked to comment on the confrontation between police and protesters during the Democratic Convention in Chicago, he, too, is regarded by millions of voters as a strong law-and-order man who, as President, would "do something" about rising crime rates, unsafe streets, noisy demonstrators and restless blacks. Hubert Humphrey is desperately attempting to straddle the issue, though in the text of his campaign kick-off speech in Washington this week he accused Nixon and the G.O.P. of "openly competing with Mr. Wallace for the votes of people who, at very best, want to put the brakes...
...announced his retirement last week after 15 years as president of Columbia University. For as the start of the new term neared, Kirk's defenders and detractors alike agreed that if he remained on the job, his very presence would provide an excuse for continued controversy on the restless campus...
...Saint David's, run by Catholic laymen, to Collegiate, a nondenominational school traditionally linked to the Dutch Reformed Church. One report says she balked at a recommendation that John be kept in second grade another year until he matures a bit; according to that story, he was often restless and inattentive in class. Others insist she was influenced by Leonard Bernstein, whose son Alexander is at Collegiate...
Most of the important stirring, however, was being done on Nixon's behalf. New Jersey was restless under its commitment to the favorite-son candidacy of Senator Clifford Case, and the Nixon forces decided to move in on it. On a golf course over the weekend, Nixon Aide Peter Flanigan told State G.O.P. Chairman Webster Todd: "Look, we need your delegation right now." Todd, whose wife was openly supporting Rockefeller, shot back: "Hell, no!" But pressure continued on individual delegates, who saw no purpose in holding out for a lost cause. By Tuesday night it was open knowledge that...
After the announcement that the leaders would move on to Bratislava for another conference, the country was confused. A restless, worried crowd of several thousand people assembled in Prague's Old Town Square. "Tell us the truth!" they shouted when National Assembly President Josef Smrkovský came out on a balcony. "For how much did you sell us to the Russians?" "If I told you that I am not ashamed to look into the eyes of our citizens after Cierna," Smrkovský replied earnestly, "would you believe me?" In his radio address, Dubček reassured the people that...