Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations Security Council, the Soviets introduced a resolution demanding U.S. withdrawal (defeated 8 to 1). and then, anxious to keep the U.S. in an embarrassing position, vetoed a U.S. resolution offering to replace U.S. forces in Lebanon with a U.N. Emergency Force...
...would not be his stooge. After rushing out declarations of friendship to Nasser, and more slowly responding to Russia and Red China's offers of recognition, the new rulers began to make cooing noises toward the West-perhaps out of conviction, perhaps out of expediency. Apparently no more anxious than Nuri asSaid to lose oil royalties, they announced that Western interests were in no danger, and throughout all the week, the vast Kirkuk and Mosul oilfields kept pumping and the pipelines kept flowing...
...chilling exercise in pure atmosphere wedded to a sadly penetrating knowledge of the heart. Arriving at a gloomy country home to settle a property matter, an examining magistrate finds the owner dead. A heart attack, obviously. But was it? Why are mother, son and daughter so rudely anxious to have the judge leave? Why are they so secretive, so oddly lacking in true grief? Combining the technique of the detective story with Dostoevskian insights, Author Witold Gombrowicz unravels a skein of conflicting family emotions and so clears the way to a final tragedy that is as terrible...
Maritain's love affair with the U.S. is not an uncritical passion. He concludes that Americans are most anxious to be loved abroad, that they feel their lack of "roots" too desperately ("The worst scoundrel in Europe has roots"), that if success does not come at once, discouragement sets in. He believes that, influenced by a "popularized, anonymous positivistic philosophy," too many Americans are afraid to hold strong opinions. Maritain makes a profound observation about tolerance: "The man who says 'What is truth?', as Pilate did, is not a tolerant man, but a betrayer of the human...
...with the virtue of awakening the sleeper to his peril." ¶When Reston said De Gaulle's ascension to power in France so threatened the U.S.'s European policy that "even the modest gains of the past are now in jeopardy," Krock clucked that this sort of "anxious disapproval" was being expressed "largely by some currently displaced foreign policy-makers of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations," tartly added that "these American 'liberals' " apparently prefer chaos to De Gaulle. ¶ "Remarkable" was Reston's word for a commencement address by Adlai E. Stevenson, which called...