Word: restless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russian Jews for "anti-Soviet propaganda" would be abandoned. Any such letup in the campaign to coerce Jews seeking to go to Israel would surely enrage Russia's Arab allies in the Middle East. More important, it might encourage hopes of emigration among the U.S.S.R.'s other restless minorities, such as the Lithuanians, Ukrainians and Central Asians, who are expected soon to outnumber Russians in total population...
...establishment of the German Empire. Historian Thomas Carlyle hails the German victory in a letter to the Times of London: "That noble, patient, deep, pious and solid Germany should be at length welded into a nation and become Queen of the Continent instead of vaporing, vainglorious, gesticulating, quarrelsome, restless and oversensitive France seems to me the hopefullest public fact that has occurred in my time...
...Bank. At another level, the commission takes the refreshing position that high school graduates should not feel compelled to go to college immediately-but that college should be open to them whenever they feel like going. According to the commission, restless youths should be encouraged to "stop out" after high school, work at jobs or community service, then enter college with greater desire and maturity...
Even a nonbeliever knows his astrological sign. If his birthday falls, for example, between May 22 and June 21, the charts have always told him that he is a Gemini. They reassure him that deep down he is a restless, versatile, clever, exuberant and expressive chap, even if friends and neighbors find him stolid, sullen and introverted. Sudden notification that this same fellow is in reality a Taurusstubborn, systematic, kindhearted and musicalis sure to prove unsettling, particularly when he appears decidedly sloppy, mean and congenitally tone-deaf...
Would they? Would Harvard students be taken in by a grinning hypocrite who came glad-handing his way down to Lowell House to pacify the natives whenever they got restless? Some of Brewster's stunts seem so obvious as to insult the intelligence even of Yale. A year ago, for example, Brewster spoke in front of the Yale Political Union, an apolitical student forum, and gained national publicity for his proposal that any Yale president's term be "reviewed" by the Yale Corporation every seven year. Whatever that meant-since no president has tenure and can be fired...