Word: disquieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honor Balfour cabled: "This is a conference of worried men. From back-street boarding houses to the big, red brick Cliffs Hotel on the upper-class north shore, there's a sense of disquiet, restiveness, uncertainty. Gone are the days when delegates huddled in eager groups in cafes and lounges, heads thrust forward in lively argument, eyes shining in anticipation of a great crusade. Gone are the more recent days when, flushed with new power, they sank into easy chairs and sprawled in happy discussion, secure in the knowledge that an order to their parliamentary steamroller would change...
...with a modern girl, the niece of the now-senile Niven, who comes to stay in the house, in 1940 and meets a young flyer. They, too, are in love but manage to hide it from each other until almost too late. The elderly uncle observes all this with disquiet, and divides his time between hearing the voice of the non-dead Lark and advising the girl to get off the dime and marry...
...Disquieting Miracles. The writing about Christ is reverent, but matter-of-fact. And the style is so flat that Dr. Douglas can speak of biblical characters being "in the driver's seat." Dr. Douglas tells a good story, but he has none of the magic-lantern slide color of a Feuchtwanger or the ingenious imagination of a Robert Graves. The miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word...
...President Virgil Hancher. Said he: "Somewhere along the pathway of progress the art of contemplation has been lost. The Society of Friends, certain Roman Catholics, and an occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art. They retain anchorage in a sea of ceaseless motion, of disquiet and drifting. You can make it a rule of life to withdraw each day into quiet and contemplation. You have but one life, and a short one, at your disposal. Only in leisure can you savor...
...first Zionist Congress, wrote in his diary that within 50 years the world would have heard of his dream of a Jewish state. Last week delegates to the 22nd World Zionist Congress, meeting in Basel, Switzerland, where Herzl's group had met, knew with pride and some disquiet that his prophecy had been fulfilled...