Word: restless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intends to save his major campaigning until mid-September, Nixon had got off to quite a start. He had shown restless Republicans his crowd appeal and answered critics who had challenged him to speak out on basic issues...
...support they have managed to win.) Last week, as F.I.N. leaders gathered at the Tunis villa of "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, emissaries from the pro-rebel governments of Morocco and Tunisia turned up to urge them to fly to Paris and negotiate with De'Gaulle. The rebels, tattered and restless, gave word that they would seriously consider...
Billy almost never does, on screen or off. Inside a head that makes him look like a benevolent old bullfrog resides a restless imagination, a "flypaper memory" and a wit that ranges from the merry to the mordant. Wilder, not Benchley, was the man who first said: "Wait till I slip out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." He is also the author of this scathing epigram: "I would worship the ground you walk on if you lived in a better neighborhood...
This sociological-psychological fact, thinks Teacher Goldstein, a nondenominational Protestant, has profound theological results. Insecure and anxious like most men, theologians (there has never been a woman theologian of note) tend to equate the restless self-concern that results from this state with sin, and to extol the opposite (feminine) qualities of quiet, self-surrendering passivity. Such theologians as Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sweden's Anders Nygren and Israel's Martin Buber see man as estranged from himself and from God and filled with anxiety because of his estrangement; that anxiety, in their view, results in sins...
...around getting to be top climber in the Sierra. Son of a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia, he graduated as a classics scholar from Pennsylvania's Geneva College, but in 1909 he was lured to California by the writings of Naturalist John Muir. Clyde put in a dozen restless years teaching school, then quit and took to the Sierra for good...