Word: restless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even after Little Rock, progress seemed agonizingly slow. And in their disappointment, a multitude of Negroes began blaming the N.A.A.C.P. for its reliance upon the slow, stolid processes of the courts. Declared Negro Journalist Louis Lomax, 41: "The Negro masses are angry and restless, tired of prolonged legal battles that end in paper decrees. The organizations that understand this unrest and rise to lead it will survive; those that do not will perish." Asked if he thought his national leaders were asleep at the switch, Jersey City N.A.A.C.P. President Raymond Brown snapped: "Hell, they don't even know where...
...muggy nights when players as well as fans were languoring in the yawning gulf of ten games separating the Yankees from the rest of the American League. The yawn grew wider as the Yankees carried a 3-1 lead into the eighth inning; even the natives were getting restless...
Like the son in The Glass Menag- erie John Williams sets the Southern landscape with his lyrical prologue: "I remember the evening now with remoteness and detachment." In hilarious counterpoint to these words, he grinds out a cigarette and his body surges with the restless energy of Brando-like animalism. These moments are enough to absolve him from the shortcomings of his unchanging demeanor throughout the afternoon...
...Opponents of the bill said that Mme. Nhu sponsored it only to prevent the husband of her somewhat restless sister from divorcing her, but the First Lady indignantly denies this. Says she soothingly: "I well knew that my sister would want a divorce herself when she found someone more appropriate." Today the sister does indeed want a divorce, but it is doubtful that President Diem will grant...
...keeping with his restless nature, Hilton is particularly fond of making flying visits to his chain or searching out new hotel sites. He scrambled like a mountain goat over Rome's Monte Mario to pick out just the right spot for the Cavalieri Hilton, declared with the spirit of a Medici commissioning a palace that he wanted it to be "a balcony of flowers overlooking Rome." Whenever Hilton appears at one of his hotels, the staff jumps to give him royal treatment-and sometimes stumbles. His bathtub at the New York Hilton was cracked, and at the Waldorf recently...