Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caltech and M.I.T. Though a devoted Eisenhower team player, Gates publicly blew his stack against Ike's Defense Department reorganization plan ("The Secretary of Defense has all the authority he needs"), cannonaded against interservice bickerings ("The Secretary of Defense continues to struggle handicapped by traditionally divided service opinions"). Anxious to return to his gold-plated Drexel investment job, Gates early this year resigned his $22,000 secretaryship, effective June 1. But Ike persuaded him to stay in Washington as Deputy Secretary. Said Gates: "It plays hob with my personal plans, but I guess it is my duty...
...Taleb to South-western University, Le Moyne, an all-Negro college in Memphis, the University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, Northwestern, and the University of Chicago. Sponsored by NSA groups on each campus, they spoke in French to sparse audiences comprised mainly of foreign students, Africans, and French majors anxious to show their facility by painfully framing their questions in ungrammatical French. I shared the podium with them as translator...
They came at a bad time. Exams had absorbed the attention of all but self-styled student leader types, and "internationally-minded" undergraduates anxious to demonstrate that they were not land-locked intellectually in the green campuses of the middle west. Those who did attend the meetings heard M. Aitchalal, a small, wiry-mustached man, who speaks with passion, but not violence, about a cause to which he is entirely committed...
...theory, the packing of commuters into a "House" of their own with good facilities will mold them into a group with high esprit which will be terribly anxious to participate in the College's activities. But by no stretch of the imagination will Dudley be a real House, for it is so selected and constructed that parochialism must be its greatest common denominator. The name "House" is merely a device to conceal the fact that there will be a change in privileges but no change in relation to the rest of the College...
...next board meeting fortnight ago was an ugly brawl. To the high-school auditorium went 1,000 of Aldine's concerned citizens, anxious to hear three board members who had promised a new solution. But after a look at the crowd's mood (two earlier meetings had broken up in fist fights), the three board members decided to keep their plan to themselves, and another member moved to adjourn the meeting. "The time for solution is now!" cried one citizen, and with that a riot erupted. The angry crowd dragged two board members from the stage, beat them...