Word: restlessness
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...meeting stretched into its seventh and eighth hours, the crowd thinned. At least 50 people remained to the final vote, though they grew restless and hostile by the end. Members of the largely pro-randomization audience booed and hissed when Walser offered an amendment to assure choice...
...with a 54-year-old ex-president with a restless brain and a surplus of charisma, this was the part we were waiting for - "I'll leave the presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead." Question: Was he therefore that deeply cynical when he entered the Oval Office...
...family and was starting to settle down. I was in the idea business, which meant long hours sitting at a computer, and as interesting as it was, it caused the bathroom scale to show mysteriously high numbers when I stepped on it in the morning and left me feeling restless and disturbingly normal. The biathlon idea resurfaced and I couldn't get it out of my mind: It offered a real challenge (skiing and shooting do not go together easily); it provided hope for my long-lost Olympic aspirations; but most importantly, it gave relief from the ordinariness that...
...introduction, Smith writes of the Kennedy family with a sometimes rueful eloquence: "As I've grown older, I have begun to marvel...at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences...Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce...
...Chinese year of the snake officially kicks off Jan. 24, and the reptiles seem restless with anticipation. Around the globe, apodes have been lurking in the news...