Word: restless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rare moments of privacy last week, fast-running Jack Kennedy was restless and tense. He fidgeted with his tie clasp, rolled and squeezed a magazine or tapped his feet. All surface signs were pointing to a Kennedy victory, but the Democrats had a good dose of down-to- the-wire nervousness over Dwight Eisenhower's all-out support for Nixon, and over the nagging question of the religion vote...
...January, restless Digitronics will introduce another machine, which Addresso-graph-Multigraph will sell and service. By adding new names and dropping old ones, the machine brings mailing lists with millions of names up to date daily...
...measure of Charles de Gaulle's declining prestige among France's restless intellectuals that they now feel free to make De Gaulle himself a pincushion for barbed French satire. The shafts fly at him from right, left and center. On radio, television and in Montmartre cellars, the traditional chansonniers gibe irreverently at De Gaulle's big-power pretensions and the docility of his Cabinet. A favorite target is Premier Michel Debré, who is depicted, not altogether incorrectly, as a puppet and errand boy. One chansonnier lyric has De Gaulle asking Debré the time. Debr...
While the world's statesmen hotly debated its fate in the U.N., the Congo sprawled in the equator's heat, torpid and listless. The riotous chaos and killing had mostly stopped. In its place was a vapid, restless calm...
...needs time in Algeria, time to establish an atmosphere in which elections are possible, and time to prepare the French public for what must inevitably seem to them a catastrophic defeat. Despite its impressive economic advances, de Gaulle's administration is not entirely secure: the military are restless, and recent protests against the war from teachers and intellectuals reveal deepening rifts in French society. Therefore, although the threat of UN intervention will certainly not topple the Fifth Republic (since any UN action will only be ritualistic), it would only add to the centrifugal forces which are weakening France. And only...