Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paris. Twelve years of unrest, political squabbles, unemployment and riots had convinced him, a soldier since the age of puberty, that there could be neither peace nor security in Germany unless some way was found to re-establish the old German army and return to the form of government that Germans of his generation understand best: a monarchy. Smarter than most of the German military, he realized that neither of these things could come to pass unless France with her army of a half-million men was mollified. He assembled a little camarilla of army officers and aristocrats and last...
...them to circuses and horse races; with Plenty of ponies in the enormous stables and old Jer Donohughe's hounds to follow, it seems to the children that pleasures will never end. But along comes the War. Easter's father is killed. Follows Ireland's revolutionary unrest. Encircling Puppetstown, the lovely mountains Mandoran, Moncooin and the Black Stall are infested with Sinn Feiners. Aunts Dicksie and Brenda still keep open house, entertain the Army officers from nearby. One day one of them, motoring with Brenda, is ambushed, killed. On that same day the children, careless...
...Henry Chapman Swearingen, 63, of St. Paul, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; of heart disease; aboard a train near Hastings, Neb. As a result of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of 15 in 1925 "to study the causes of unrest in the denomination." Later he headed a commission investigating marriage, divorce and remarriage...
...Have we gone mad? Have we no idea that if we carry this period of unrest from one week to another, a panic will break loose which all the tariffs under heaven will not stem? Yet we sit here to take care of some little interest in this State or that instead of rising above petty sectionalism and acting for the nation...
...Sham respectability, a survival of the mediaeval idea that instincts were from the devil, ideals from God, accounts for intense unrest in America. A psychologist is the only one who completly understands human nature...