Word: restlessness
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...them. Gloria's father, Jose Manuel, had been a motorcycle escort for the wife of Cuban ruler Fulgencio Batista, so when the President was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1958, the Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with the U.S. Army, was exposed to Agent Orange, developed multiple sclerosis and died in 1980. Gloria used...
...says she had no epiphany, no revelation, but found solace in a theological solution. The restless, driven heart can find peace only when focused on God, and that is what Elizabeth Dole attempted to do. Now, on the campaign trail, she travels with a turquoise leather Bible that she tries to devote 30 minutes every day to reading. Says Robin Dole, the Senator's only daughter, who has been a regular on the road: "God is the most important thing in her life...
According to The Crimson, the University's financial base was crumbling; it had committed to several new and costly projects; the Faculty was "divided and restless" and the students were "united and angry...
...also partly religious, wanting to some extent to establish a more Islamic state." The Shiite dissatisfaction has been fueled by economic inequities. Unlike its Gulf neighbors, Bahrain is not a major oil-exporting country, and the declines in oil prices have had a major economic impact on an already restless population. "Adding to the economic disaffection, the Gulf war brought with it greater expectation for democracy," says MacLeod. "This has inspired opposition movements demanding the restoration of parliament, which was dissolved in 1975, just as an elected parliament has been restored in Kuwait." In the wake of Monday's arrests...
...years ago the tall, restless character who moved into the White House with Franklin Roosevelt was viewed by large portions of the U.S. public with some degree of derision if not alarm. They caricatured her, joked about her, called her 'Eleanor Everywhere.' They couldn't believe that any one woman could sincerely embrace the multiplicity of interests ... Today enough people have met Mrs. Roosevelt, talked with her ... checked up on her, to accept her for what she is: the prodigious niece of prodigious, ubiquitous, omnivorous Roosevelt I. Everything she says, everything she does, is genuinely and transparently motivated. Sophisticates...