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Word: anxious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army try to stop McCarthy's investigation of security risks at Fort Monmouth? Clearly, it did; both Stevens and Army Counselor John Adams admitted that they were anxious to get that "type" of hearing called off, because McCarthy's investigations and extravagant charges were demoralizing the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Few Scars | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Breaking Off. At week's end the fall of the French government paralyzed all negotiations. But the Communists made clear that they were anxious to keep on talking, if only to blame the West for the impending break. They had their bait ready in military maps. Though political talks were deadlocked, the Communists might tempt a new French government to keep talking by yielding an acre here, a salient there, on the tried & true pattern of Panmunjom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: Bitter Facts | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...students to whom she refers as "my concentrators" or "my boys." In addition, she is the administrative secretary for both Government 1 and Economics 1, preparing the section lists for these courses, recording the grades, mimeographing reading lists, making sure the books are available, and telling countless anxious students that no, she does not have the results of their mid-year exams...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Secretaries: Keepers of the Wheels | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

...world of adults." Flanders wanted the Mundt committee to examine "the real heart of the mystery": the personal relationships between McCarthy, Counsel Cohn and Private Schine. Conn "seems to have an almost passionate anxiety" to retain Schine, observed Senator Flanders. As to Schine, he continued: "At times [McCarthy] seems anxious to rid himself of the whole mess, and then again, at least in the presence of his assistant [Cohn], he strongly supports the latter's efforts to keep the Army private's services available. Does the assistant have some hold on the Senator? Can it be that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS,INVESTIGATIONS: The Colossal Innocent | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...room, they sit up and talk sense with him, perhaps for the first time in months. There is no thought that chlorpromazine is any cure for mental illness, but it can have great value if it relaxes patients and makes them accessible to treatment. The extremely agitated or anxious types often give up compulsive behavior, a surface symptom of their illness. It is, says Dr. Scull, as though the patients said, "I know there's something disturbing me, but I couldn't care less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wonder Drug of 1954? | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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