Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget Canterbury is a kind of unrest home where an inmate ekes out his life like an indeterminate prison sentence. Most of the attendants are too overworked and too unfeeling to do more than slap the patients into line. The wards are the circles of a neo-Dantean inferno. In Stationary, the patients are strapped into chairs to groan, curse and soil themselves through the day. In Hydro, a patient is wrapped mummy-fashion in icy wet sheets for 72 hours at a stretch. In the "untidy" wards the bedridden turn their heads obsessively from side to side, rubbing...
...overall measure of farmer unrest was totted up in dollars and cents last week by the U.S. Agriculture Department: primarily because of a drop in hog and chicken prices, total farm income fell much faster in 1959 than predicted only a month ago, will fall 15% below 1958 to about $11.2 billion, and will probably slide another 7% or more...
Since the days of the Dreyfus case, one of the perennial features of French government has been l'affaire-that unique combination of intrigue, scandal and politics that seems to come along at times of great political unrest and to suggest the existence of deep, deadly and corrupt forces at work in the body politic. Last week, faithful to this national tradition, President Charles de Gaulle's fledgling Fifth Republic uneasily probed its third*and most fascinating political scandal-I'affaire Mitterrand...
More ominous yet was the news from Baghdad itself. The once-ubiquitous portraits of Kassem disappeared from many a shop window; on several occasions Baghdad police were obliged to fire over the heads of crowds staging anti-Kassem demonstrations. And rumors persisted that there was grave unrest in the Iraqi army, where there was bitter mourning for the senior officer executed, popular Brigadier Nadhem Tabakchali, former commander of Iraq's 2nd Division...
Tall, athletic Nadhem Tabakchali, one of the Iraqi army's most distinguished officers, was in command of all Iraqi troops in the Mosul area at the time of the rising. Dismayed by the unrest and drift toward Communism that have plagued Iraq since the July 1958 revolution against British-backed strongman Nuri asSaid, Tabakchali had almost certainly been involved in plans for a general army uprising against Kassem. But when the local commander in Mosul impetuously jumped the gun, Tabakchali hesitated fatally, then pulled back...