Word: restlessness
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...which I am. Now this is going to be one duck with brass knuckles." After serving as a World War II correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, he wrote columns for Figaro Litteraire, Punch, the Daily Mail of London and any number of American newspapers to finance the restless trips that took over his life. He covered everything from political conventions to the Viet Nam War, which he supported nearly to the bitter end. By then his oddly incompatible circle of friends came to include both Jazz Guitarist Eddie Condon and Lyndon Johnson. When, nearly 60 and plagued...
...lock on the legislative process has long gone unrivaled by his elected colleagues. He has held the prestigious job of Speaker of the House for the past eight years--longer than anybody else since the early days of the 19th century. But now, Massachusetts has come alive with the restless spirit of democratic reform and, for the first time, the autocratic McGee has been seriously challenged. Furthermore, in this, his moment of vulnerability, all the signs indicate that a momentous revolution in the age-old form of Massachusetts representative government has begun...
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason. Times are changing in western Kentucky, the setting for these tales of restless wives, footloose truckers and feisty senior citizens...
...Baker stays in the running, it will reinforce the impression that the White House staff is restless and feuding. Director of Communications David Gergen resigned last week to accept a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics. Three weeks earlier, Legislative Liaison Kenneth Duberstein quit to join a private lobbying firm. The departure of these two "pragmatists" as well as the expected resignation early next year of Budget Director David Stockman, will leave Baker with only two staunch allies in the White House, Michael Deaver and Richard Darman. That prospect, along with the fatigue of three years...
...were the records, like Slow Train Coming, that were issued in the wake of the gossip. Dylan's songs of faith managed to be reverent and uncommitted at the same time, as if, by singing to the listener, he was also trying to convince himself and calm his restless soul...