Word: restless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weber herself studied philosophy and sociology at the University of Virginia, shifted to teaching in nursery schools and before long was directing a cooperative school in New York. She began demonstrating some of her ideas in a public elementary school in 1968. A natural teacher, she soon captivated the restless children with her improvisations. Example: to demonstrate a principle of weights and measures, she borrowed a baby from a visiting mother and had the children weigh...
...company was bought from its British owners after World War I by General Electric, which changed its name to Radio Corp. of America. Sarnoff became general manager and, during the 1920s, persuaded its reluctant owners to invest in a series of chancy schemes. His restless drive led RCA to mass-produce home radio sets, to set up a broadcasting network (NBC) and to make the company's first tentative steps into television. By 1932, when the trustbusters forced the company's owners to spin off RCA, Sarnoff had been president for two years. He led by sheer force...
Divorced once from one wife, three times from another, Peckinpah is presently unmarried, restless, dissatisfied. Trying to characterize the man, a friend recalls that Peckinpah once kept a pet boa constrictor in his office. One day, the friend found Peckinpah staring at the cage, which contained the snake and a petrified white mouse...
...instead of woven cloth-stand out like a bright golden thread in a frayed gray shawl. The upheaval caused by double knits has brought fresh earnings and excitement to the industry, created new textile firms and technology, provided a rich source of sales for profit-parched merchants, and satisfied restless consumer demand for increasingly varied fashions...
...These winy wraiths testify singly and at bold length about Raleigh, but mostly about soldiering, flattering, storms and other things they know. The illusion is so good that the skin crawls. Here, for example, is the courtier taking his leave: "This ghost, an ageless young man, ever idle and restless, courteous and cruel, unchanging child of change, this man will say no more. He touches his lips to signal silence. He smiles and, miming the blowing out of a candle, he takes a thief's farewell, first the color fading, then the sad cold light of his eyes gone...