Word: restlessness
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...Restless Quebec. Both for the narrowest of political reasons and the widest conception of national interest, the Liberals must do something to satisfy restless French Canada. They are in a better position to do so than the Tories. Under the new provincial leadership of Liberal Premier Jean Lesage. Quebec is at last emerging from a corrupt political history, a backward church-dominated educational system, and an unadventuresome economic structure...
...into a position as one of the world's biggest shipbuilders. "I did it all myself." he says proudly. Verolme's ego is as big as the ocean, his shrewdness as deep, his drive as inexorable. He barks orders to associates until they are frazzled, is so restless that he rarely sits down; his first marriage ended in divorce because his wife could not keep up with his pace. He is, said one Dutch weekly, "a merchant from 1700 living in the 20th century...
Nikita spared no group in the restless audience. Writer Ilya Ehrenburg, 72, drew scorn for the title of his 1954 novel, The Thaw, which, said Nikita, suggests political "impermanence and instability." As for Ehrenburg's memoirs, which have been running in the literary journal Novy Mir, Khrushchev remarked caustically, "one notices that he depicts everything in grim tones." Khrushchev warned the veteran Ehrenburg against "slipping into an anti-Communist position...
...slipped silently out of the Plymouth, and walked two blocks to Madison Square Garden. Nobody recognized him staring up at the marquee that read TONIGHT -BOXING-CLAY vs. JONES. Clay eturned to his room, sprawled on the bed. At 10 he was up again, restless, bubbly' puckish. At the weigh-in, Cassius burst into the room and strode toward the scales -startled laughter in his wake. Even Doug Jones could not resist a smile. There, plastered across the Mighty Mouth, was a 2-in.-wide strip of adhesive tape...
...soon visit the United States to present a series of lectures and readings. Several of his poems, particularly a bitter attack on Soviet anti-Semitism called Babi Yar, have struck a note of dissension. And various observers have written that he has become a symbol of rebelliousness for the restless element of Moscow's youth...