Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What Bell and the rest of Los Angeles fear most is how these idle and restless men will react if the verdicts in two explosive new trials are not to their liking. Only nine months after suffering the worst urban violence in the U.S. in this century, Los Angeles is bracing for trouble again. Already some youths are dusting off the NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE! placards that protesters waved last April when L.A. burst into flames after the acquittal of four white police officers in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King...
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are ourstrengths. Americans have ever been a restless,questioning hopeful people. We must bring to ourtask today the vision and will of those who camebefore...
...time when Israel and the Palestinians are attempting to negotiate peace, Israel's harsh action has put the PLO and mainstream Palestinians in a difficult position. The action has frustrated and angered a people already grown restless by the lack of progress made during the peace talks and by the steady worsening of the situation in the Occupied Territories...
...shrewd detective named Patrick Birse -- called Buddha because he looked like one -- persuaded him to turn. The author's tough, believable account of their edgily trustful relationship offers no solutions at all to the gang problem facing most of the nation's cities. But it does suggest why a restless man might become a detective, and why a bright, rootless boy might take shelter with a tribe of homicidal children...
...second Rupert byte, if Shawcross can be believed, is that this restless entrepreneur, who controls so much of what the world reads and watches, seems to be utterly banal of mind. Apart from the family he dotes on, Murdoch apparently has no interests other than minding his properties and seeking new ones...