Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been for the Supreme Court nomination, Bork might have left the bench earlier. He had not hired law clerks for the coming term, and he was obviously restless. "I don't think he finds judging all that interesting," says his D.C. circuit colleague Abner Mikva. Why, then, did Bork hang on so long after his defeat? Says Heritage Foundation Legal Expert Bruce Fein: "He didn't want this to look like the peevish decision of an upset...
...identity and allure. The ocean liner, no longer just a vehicle for getting from one continent to another and eating well along the way, has evolved into a floating amusement park, health spa and classroom. The ships, and the trips, are increasingly designed to suit the young and the restless...
...broad acclaim and was the National Book Critics Circle's choice as the best novel of 1979. It is a rich and complex telling of a rebellion on the west coast of Ireland, where in 1798 an army of the French Revolution landed and briefly allied itself with the restless peasantry against their English and Anglo-Irish masters. As one of many preludes to Clonbrony, the episode ended badly when Lord Cornwallis arrived with a superior force. The French were treated as prisoners of war and eventually sent home. The surviving Irish were denounced as traitors to the British crown...
...features -- in great serenity, just before he died last summer. In it he set forth his affection for the writer he said he loved best and, paradoxically, for the Ireland to which he exiled himself for the midpassage of a life that was, in its way, as restless and troublesome as Joyce...
...Gorbachev getting restless with provincial posts? Perhaps. Mlynar, who was rising toward the top levels of the Czech Communist Party, visited his old classmate in 1967 and recalls that Gorbachev complained about excessive interference by Moscow in local affairs. Mlynar described the sweeping reforms that Alexander Dubcek was then beginning in Czechoslovakia. He remembers Gorbachev saying, with a sigh, "Perhaps there are possibilities in Czechoslovakia because conditions are different." The Czech reforms, however, were crushed by Soviet tanks the following year, and Mlynar went into exile; he now lives in Austria. The two old friends talked and drank through that...