Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landscape architect for regulation city planning," and "men more broadly trained in conservation of resources and government finance who can work with government and other groups." Pointing to the fact that over one-half f the leaders of the planning professions are Harvard-trained, Issacs explained that he was anxious to maintain this leadership...
...Carnival, with all its fascinating games, is still the party atmosphere in the fraternities and at the Carnival Ball for non-fraternity men and freshmen. While the authorities have succeeded in repressing the wildness that once reigned during the Carnival by the limited invitation system, the students are anxious to be hospitable. Very seldom is a sober visitor asked to leave a party just because he has no invitation. The Dartmouth is a friendly animal, and during his time of big celebration he feels that a big and roaring party is successful. And it generally...
Johnnie Walker, Red. The faint suggestion of a smile worked at the corners of Molotov's mouth as he left the third day's proceedings: Was he mistaken, or had Britain and France seemed not quite so anxious as the U.S. to shut him up and move on? At the delegates' bar, where Eden and Bidault sipped cocktails and Dulles munched a sandwich, Molotov confidently downed two shots of Johnnie Walker (Red Label...
...Manhattan, Funnyman Jackie Gleason made a flying exit from his TV show. Carrying an electric fan and a bag of flour, Gleason stepped on a slippery spot left by dry ice, catapulted offstage and into the wings. While the CBS switchboard was lit up by calls from anxious fans, he was rushed to Doctors Hospital where examination revealed Gleason had suffered fractures of his right leg and ankle, would be out of action for "several weeks...
will surely pay an incalculable price for its criminal action." The Communists did not seem anxious to exact this price in renewed fighting. They tried instead for a penny's worth of propaganda...