Word: troublous
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Noting such troublous signs, many businessmen were no longer talking about whether there would be a business recession. They were wondering how much business would recede...
Oaxaca, dotted with old Spanish churches and circled by yet older Zapotecan pyramids, was a troublous city. Businessmen, with support of the people, had struck against the state government. Last week not a shop was open (except for druggists and undertakers). The Institute of Arts and Sciences had closed its classes. A thousand federal troops patrolled the streets, blockaded roads leading into the city. Most of the 35,000 inhabitants-with women & children in the van-paraded the streets in the sort of protest against local political bosses that was sweeping Mexico like a grass fire...
...white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch, and one rainy day he grumbled to Mistress Higons: "It is 'long of the King that this weather is so troublous and unstable, and I wene that we shall never have better weather whiles the King reigneth, and therefore it makes no matter if he were knocked or patted on the head...
...year of uncertain peace had passed since the battleship King George V slipped into Annapolis, carrying Lord Halifax to his new post as war-torn London's Ambassador to Washington. Last week, on the eve of homegoing and retirement, the tall, mild statesman looked into the troublous future, saw Anglo-American friendship as "a patch of good firm ground on which we can stand and be secure." Said...
...week of harmony, and this week would be another, with Winston Churchill absent, nursing a sore throat. But the calm was illusory. Troublous weeks and months of struggle were ahead...