Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, a victory for partition looked probable. But when the Assembly president, Brazil's Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, was about to call for a vote, the Arabs won another delay. France's Alexandre Parodi rose. France, afraid of unrest among her 13,000,000 Moslem nationals in North Africa, hesitated to support partition. "We have come to the moment of decision," said Parodi, "and I feel certain misgivings. . . ." Was there really no possible ground for compromise, he wondered? Parodi got a 24-hour recess...
...poll of its wholesale and manufacturing members, the association last week found that 80% of them expected a recession to start in the second quarter of next year. Among their reasons for fearing a slump were high prices, excessive inventories, buyer resistance, lack of capital, and labor unrest. And the number of bad accounts was increasing rapidly...
...problems," he warned, "can compare in gravity with the spread of aftosa among the cattle." Last fortnight, the joint U.S.-Mexican commission directing the anti-aftosa campaign reported that it would last from one to five years, depending on the cooperation of the Mexican people. But sullen unrest against the slaughter of diseased cattle is spreading among farmers, and cooperation may be hard...
...because of a long, deep depression or serious internal unrest, became so weakened that Russia would feel safe in being much more aggressive than...
...Allan Octavian Hume, a British theosophist and retired civil servant, founded the Congress in 1885. He persuaded the Viceroy, Lord Dufferin, that the best way to combat growing unrest in the villages was to let Indian leaders discuss political development...