Word: disquieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...material, many middle-class parents rush to the prestigious public schools (costing up to one-third of their incomes). In turn, standards in the secondary modern schools are falling, which makes it even tougher on the children of less prosperous parents. Noted the London Times recently: "A mood of disquiet, and even of neurosis, runs wide and deep across the country...
...Sensing disquiet and confusion about his attitude toward a summit meeting, President Eisenhower told his press conference: "I want to make this very clear . . . [No one] can command anybody else to come to a summit meeting. And you can't bluff them or blackmail them or anything else. This is to be a meeting, if there is one, of heads of government who are acting voluntarily and because of their beliefs in the possibilities with some kind of grounds for such a belief that real measures can be discussed profitably by all of us." He stressed that a foreign...
Many Canadians seem to think so-among them Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. "There is an intangible sense of disquiet in Canada over the political implications of large-scale and continuing external ownership and control of Canadian industries," he says...
Against the day when "disquiet" might be translated into action, some companies are systematically trying to loosen their U.S. corporate ties and to "Canadianize" their management. One conspicuous example is U.S.-owned Union Carbide Canada Ltd., Canada's second biggest chemical manufacturer. Ever since it was formed four years ago from five loosely knit subsidiaries of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., the Toronto company has sought earnestly to assume a Canadian coloration. It took on a Canadian president and board chairman, gave Canadians four out of seven seats on the board of directors, put Canadians...
...Times (circ. 220,705), the Tories' most influential editorial voice and an un questioning supporter of force in August, now tempered its support with "deep disquiet." It deplored Britain's decision not to consult the U.S. and the Common wealth, feared that there would be a "strong reaction" from the Arab world. Demanded the Times: "Was the need for speed really so great that President Eisenhower had to hear about the Anglo-French ultimatum from press reports?" There were also uneasy questions from Lord Rothermere's staunchly Tory Daily Mail (circ. 2,071,708), another August advocate...