Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tight as a cocklebur Dictator-President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona stuck to the saddle of the restless Republic of Portugal last week, a saddle in which he has ridden for the past five years...
Seville has been restless for weeks. Times are hard in Andalusia; there is serious unemployment. Syndicalist agitators have found many willing ears. Trouble started when Angel Pestana, national head of the Syndicalists, attempted to lead a funeral procession in honor of a Syndicalist killed in a ruckus fortnight ago. Police barred the way. There was a scuffle. Knives flashed. Pistols banged. Angel Pestana prudently disappeared. When the firing ceased and the dust cleared one policeman and two Syndicalists lay dead. At least 15 men were seriously wounded...
...When the restless desire to envisage the truth...
...invading tribes in very early times, most of whom came from the North, and the Greeks and Romans were to a considerable extent the descendants of these northern invaders. He who would understand the origins, as well as the downfall, of classical culture must turn his eyes to the restless barbarians of Central Europe
...Einstein, snug last week in his Berlin Tower, was somewhat restless. "[We do] not describe Nature, but merely expectations from Nature," he said. "Whereas the aim of Science is to describe the things themselves, not merely the probability of their happening. . . ." He is confident that there is a cause for every phenomenon; that some day some scientist will be able to explain precisely why Mary started for the theatre, why she turned at the observer's tap, why she did or did not proceed to a particular performance...