Word: restless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good television show-shortening the speeches, banning parades. So bulky was the television camera platform in the center of the hall that the best seat was in anybody's home; any delegate whose podium view wasn't blocked by the camera platform found it blocked by the restless aisle parade of guards, guests and reporters. Chairman Robert Strauss did everything for TV except drop a handkerchief every few minutes to signal a commercial time...
...Ilyushin jet. Out of view but scarcely out of mind was the huge jumble of rails ripped from the tracks near Warsaw late last month by rioting Polish workers. Indeed the mass strikes protesting food price hikes that swept across Poland provided a fitting background for the uneasy, restless mood of the Communist summit. Meeting in the modern, wood-paneled conference room of the Hotel Stadt Berlin, the chiefs of Western Europe's Communist parties rose one after the other to manifest their independence from the Kremlin's 50-year-long hegemony...
...hemisphere; the gross national product last year increased 4.5%, to $80 billion. Inflation, currently 15%, hit hard, but at a time when other developing countries were clobbered by high oil prices, Mexico has been opening up new oilfields and has even begun exporting petroleum. Many voters, though, are restless about the failure of a supposedly revolutionary party to solve such nagging social problems as high unemployment (estimated at 30%) illiteracy (27%), corruption, a top-heavy bureaucracy and blatant tax evasion...
...Trouble was that the Navy had retired Cook from sea duty last year and made him a captain of the Greenwich Hospital for pensioned sailors, a sinecure that pays ?230 a year, as well as a free suite of rooms, firewood and candles. But Cook, still only 47, was restless. To a friend he confided: "A few months ago, the whole southern hemisphere was hardly big enough for me, and now I am going to be confined within the limits of Greenwich Hospital...
...Americans owe allegiance to George III? The author calls him "the royal brute of Great Britain" and a "hardened, sullen-tempered Pharoah." Do any monarchs have a hereditary right to rule their subjects? The author argues that dynasties are founded by "nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang." Does America depend on Britain for safety or prosperity? Only in "the credulous weakness of our minds." Would it be better to delay? "Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART...