Word: restlessness
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After a few more moments on the evolutionary time scale, earth's restless social primate, man, can almost surely make himself felt throughout the system. Earth's life will no longer be confined to the earth. This startling development took place with explosive suddenness. Boys still in high school remember a time when sensible citizens considered space flight as impractical as hunting leprechauns. Only ten years ago the altitude record for rockets, 250 miles, was held a brilliant achievement. Only two years ago, the earth satellite, that humblest of space vehicles, seemed an almost impossible project...
Emoto took his bride aboard an All Nippon Airways DC-3, put her in a front seat, himself took a seat beside the plane door. The stewardess noted that he watched carefully how she bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time...
...biggest supplier of power equipment, concerned with power for everything from toasters to jet engines. Its stake has been defined in terms that every schoolboy can understand by G.E.'s chairman Ralph Jarron Cordiner, 58, a short (5 ft. 7½ in.), power-packed man with restless eyes that are always trained on the future, ever watchful for risk and opportunity. Says Cordiner: "The atom is the power of the future-and power is the business of General Electric...
...housing, agricultural, and unemployment compensation cuts affect substantial segments of the low and middle income brackets, the restless majority recovering slowly in the wake of the recession. But the President is optimistic about business recovery; in fact, he is counting on it desperately to raise needed government revenue. In spite of this emerging bull market, however, he is strangely reluctant to take such measures as restoring the cut in the capital gains tax (which cost the government $4 billion in annual revenue) the Administration made four years...
...conclusion that once again they invite self-sacrifice by the purchase of such periodicals. Today this is not so, and I report with pleasure that the wounded soul of adolescent concern has expired, its pimpled face stiffened in silence, its deep and brooding eyes closed in exhaustion, its restless shell retired to the Hayes-Bickford corner it deserves so well...