Word: restless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spends a restless night, still trying to define his moral and intellectual status, the city outside mobilizes for a possible military invasion. There are phantom images of guns being hauled up to roofs and tanks rumbling through the gray morning streets. It is the time of the missile crisis...
White House observers, some of whom have watched Julie grow up, sense more in this new-found activity than a restless urge for public speech-making-or even a welcome chance to defend her embattled father. Says...
Freedom from Frills. Like Thomas E. Colvin, the naval architect who designed and built the lovely junk-rigged schooner Gazelle, the men who drew the lines of all these boats are men whose restless imaginations were shaped by the same traditions that molded Colin Archer-the traditions and demands of the sea. Simplicity, sturdiness and an utter freedom from frills are the hallmark of their work...
...President's inadvertently provocative speech was broadcast to 250,000 restless young Perónists who had gathered in and around Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo. Cámpora's words led to a paroxysm of rioting and looting, during which outgoing President Alejandro Lanusse was spat upon and Antonio Cardinal Caggiano, the 84-year-old primate of Argentina, was jostled when demonstrators rocked...
...Thompson came to Radcliffe this Spring, looking like a jaded and somewhat exotic ex-athlete--humble, but with the manner of a restless mountain lion. He walked into the stiffly gracious common room at 6:30 in the evening, plunked a six-pack on the coffee table, mumbled "well, this is breakfast," and proceeded to give one of the most lucid and intelligent analyses of last fall's presidential campaign that we have ever heard...