Word: restless
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...former Presidents Bush, Clinton and Carter. Many watched on jumbo television screens as a dozens of speakers took to the pulpit to sing the praise of King's widow. To attend the ceremony, the President had delayed a New Hampshire trip promoting his new budget. Bush, who is notoriously restless at long events, stuck to the dictum that speakers keep their remarks short. His words didn't rouse the crowd, but he was received politely when he said that he was there to offer sympathy on behalf of an entire nation. His words, laced with religious imagery, seemed to resonate...
...RESTLESS EXILES...
Even for those accustomed to northern climates, an election in the dark of Canadian winter can try the soul. On Jan. 23 Canadians will vote for a new Parliament, and in this normally unflappable nation there's a restless and angry mood that bodes ill for the governing Liberal Party. With two weeks remaining before the vote, Prime Minister Paul Martin was running second in opinion surveys behind Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper, whose right-of-center platform of taxation, gun control and same-sex marriage (he doesn't like any of them) until recently seemed to place him well...
...Symptoms: After multiplatinum albums and Grammy nominations, you realize hook-ups with groupies just aren’t as fulfilling anymore. So you re-enroll at Harvard, apparently a bastion for the young, the restless, and the rejuvenating...
Holding Heaven, Jenkins' project with illustrator Ron DiCianni, has only two scenes: one in Egypt as Joseph talks his restless infant to sleep by describing the miracles of his life thus far and another 30 years later at the Nazareth carpenter's deathbed as the old man querulously but determinedly extracts from the adult Jesus the grim story of Christ's future and his good news for humanity...