Word: restless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third issue, March 17, 1923, with an item reporting on a "somewhat new theory" to the effect that "the satellite was formed by a coalescence of masses coming together by mutual gravitation." This theory is still in good repute. In the intervening decades TIME has followed man's restless reach for the moon, including the simple experiment of a Princeton student who, 35 years before Ranger VII, took lunar pictures by rigging a movie camera to a telescope. Our moon chronicle continued to note many milestones: the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1946, bouncing a radar beam...
After writing the 1960 award-winning novel A Separate Peace and the less successful Morning in Antibes, Author John Knowles, at 35, decided he was fed up with the U.S. "I was getting restless in houses so completely furnished and air conditioned and wired for sound and insulated from the outdoors that the people inside seemed in danger of becoming merchandise too." So he sought freedom, and his true self, by traveling to humanity''s cradle, the Middle East. In Beirut, languid young Lebanese reclined amid cushions and asked him to explain their country to them because...
...Saturday night, the most restless elements of Harlem, the broken-or no-home kids and the seething out-of-job adults, were bristling for a fight. It was hot and humid. Scores of people gathered for an outdoor protest rally called by three local chapters of Congress of Racial Equality. After harangues by CORE leaders, the Rev. Nelson C. Dukes, pastor of Harlem's Fountain Spring Baptist Church, and a veteran agitator, launched into a 20-minute call for action, exhorting everyone to march on the local police precinct station to present their "demands...
...Islam was one of the unifying ties in the formation of a new government: as the religion beame incorporated into the new trend, it gave tradition to the new order. Abdul-Taib said Moslems believe that political advancement leads to spiritual satisfaction, and, thus, the people, instead of becoming restless and distrustful, acquired "a patient outlook and a trust in the government's leadership...
Tall, mustachioed, and very British, Graham Hill would have cut a dashing figure at the winner's stand. But the fuel pump of his B.R.M. quit just 100 yds. past the spot where Gurney sat nursing his grief. In the grandstand, the fans began to get restless. Where was Gurney? Where was Hill? Where was anybody? At last, Bruce McLaren's Cooper cleared the crest of the last hill and started down the final straight. But McLaren was only coasting: his generator belt had parted and his engine was dead. Then came a sound that made McLaren swivel...