Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near the end of the War the traditional "Ivy" founders of the sport began to show an uneasiness about the hold football had over Americans. In an attempt to curb certain practices adopted by colleges anxious to become football powers, the heads of Harvard, Yale and Princeton met and set forth the "Presidents' Agreement," which outlined specific rules to be followed in recruiting and giving aid to players...
...seaside resort trade-Britain's trade-union movement showed its age last week. World War II and service in Britain's postwar Labor government have given the brash, rash revolutionaries of yesteryear a more mature sense of responsibility, a new aura of middle-class respectability. Less anxious to "nationalize everything," more alert to the Communist menace in their ranks, the leaders of the Trades Union Congress (8,377,325 members in 185 affiliated unions) have moved steadily to the right in recent years. But despite this right turn, some pockets of militant Communism still remain in the movement...
...sounds and smells of speed blistered the white Bonneville salt flats of Utah. Engines revved up to blatting roars. Whiffs of alcohol and nitromethane mingled with the tang of high-octane gas. With anxious care, some 200 men in oil-blotched coveralls coaxed their handmade cars to bellowing perfection-long, low, lean monsters with as many as three engines crowded beneath their sleek hoods. In the tenth annual speed trials that ended last week, the world's hottest hot-rods were shooting for 300 m.p.h. on the world's fastest race course...
...Anxious to test the tablets scientifically, Wright rushed back to England to find volunteer couples willing to risk pregnancy with only the tablets for insurance. Later they would undertake pregnancy as a countertest, get full medical treatment if sterility developed. How to find such remarkable people? Wright saw the way after newspaper stories drew 80 Birmingham couples for a similar test financed by one Captain Oliver Bird, 78, of Bird's Custard. Wright sent a carefully worded ad to the London Daily Telegraph, which rejected it with a pun: "The conception is distasteful to us." With little hope...
...selling visit to the Soviet Union, and possibly Red China, to try for bigger orders from last year's most surprising new customers. The one major stumbling block to bumper business is the U.S., which is completing a billion-bushel harvest of its own and is just as anxious as Canada to cut down wheat stocks. Canadians think they can more than hold their own. Though the U.S. wheat is likely to be cheaper on world markets, its quality is lower, cannot compare to Canada's rich harvest from the drought...