Word: restlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Displaying the heroism that comes quick and easy from Herbert's stock, he emerged the most decorated enlisted man of the Korean War. Eleanor Roosevelt advised him to get out of the army and get a degree, and he did. But Herbert was restless in civilian life, and decided to get a commission and get married. His life was in the Army...
...Garden City, Mich., a teacher persuaded a father to get a physician to prescribe Ritalin to calm his restless six-year-old daughter Joanie. The drug made her so withdrawn that she would sometimes sit for hours doing nothing. "One day I got panicky," her father said. "I had just said her name softly, and she started sobbing uncontrollably." A battery of tests disclosed that Joanie was perfectly healthy. What she needed was drill in basic reading, not drugs...
...read with only a little amusement a journal entry written by a girl in my nineteenth century novel course in which she compared herself and her undergraduate friends with the prisoners in the Fleet Street Jail in Pickwick Papers, sitting on the stairs "the greater part because they were restless and uncomfortable and not possessed of exactly knowing what to do with themselves...
Back in the U.S., Hammer went on to make more millions manufacturing beer barrels, distilling whisky and raising cattle. In 1956 he retired to California but got restless; the next year he bought control of Occidental, then a company with sales of only $274,000. Through a combination of luck, brass and shrewd management, he had built the company by 1970 into a behemoth earning $175 million on sales of more than $2 billion. Major factors in the rise: oil strikes in California and above all in Libya (one on land that Mobil Oil had abandoned because it produced nothing...
...cause celebre that received national publicity was the "Gilbert-Poor Affair." "The evening was warm," Time magazine said later. "The Yard, as ever on such spring evenings, was restless. Two Harvard freshman strolled down to the Charles' grassy banks. They were Peter Varnum Poor, son of the famed Painter Henry Varnum Poor, and Craig Philip Gilbert, son of a Manhattan lawyer. A group of high school boys shouted at them, but they paid no attention...