Word: restlessness
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...foreign debts fall due this year with no way to pay, and the country's 3,000,000 followers of exiled Dictator Juan Perón have just won enough congressional seats to threaten government legislation. Argentina's violently anti-Perón military is again growing restless. "The position of the armed forces," commented a war ministry colonel, "is hardening...
...swivels constantly like a metronome while he scribbles short answers to memos, receives visitors or pores over the pieces from newspapers and magazines that are clipped for him by Stella Russell, by his secretary, and by his Negro houseboy who, Simon insists, has a nose for news. Eternally restless, he constantly tweaks his ears, rubs his eyes, pulls at his neck, scratches his ankle, and chews constantly on a phenomenal number of Italian caramels that somehow do not seem to increase his steady weight of 180 Ibs. And, of course, he frets, worries and broods all the while...
Whether Quat's charges were true or not, one thing was sadly certain: the coup attempt and mass arrests shattered the fragile filigree of stability that had marked Quat's 14-week-old civilian regime and ended the restless truce between South Viet Nam's warring Buddhists and Catholics. Quat was forced to postpone the Cabinet reshuffle, planned for last week, that would have eliminated the last two military members of his government. At week's end the capital seethed with plots and counterplots, and few doubted that there would be an encore...
...disappointed in not being picked, but who wouldn't be? I'm objective enough to know that a businessman should fill that office." Connor and Roosevelt got along all right, but the Secretary wanted to have a top deputy of his own choosing. Roosevelt was a bit restless...
...unguarded flank. Many cannot take rock 'n' roll, but no one can leave it. The big beat is everywhere. It resounds over TV and radio, in saloons and soda shops, fraternity houses and dance halls. It has become, in fact, the international anthem of a new and restless generation, the pulse beat for new modes of dress, dance, language, art and morality. The sledgehammer refrains of Wayne Fontana and the Mind Benders' Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um can be heard parting the walls of a Yokohama teahouse, a recreation room in Topeka, or a Communist youth club in Warsaw...