Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend and proteégeé, Democrat Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, suffered a humiliating defeat when the House recently voted down a dole-type unemployment-compensation bill approved by his Ways & Means Committee (TIME, May 12). Hopeful of succeeding Rayburn as Speaker one day, Mills was desperately anxious to avoid even the possibility of a similar defeat. But as a longtime supporter of reciprocal trade, he was also anxious to avoid the blame for gutting the Administration bill. He therefore appealed to Sam Rayburn for help in tossing the responsibility back to the Administration...
...McCurdy's ace in the hole, Joel Landau, is favored to win both hurdles, and if McCurdy enters him in the dashes, Yale coach Bob Giegengack should have quite a few anxious movements...
Caldwell, though, hasn't sold his soul to Hollywood, or anything else. Writing is his living, and professionalism doesn't appear to have changed his approach. He's done thirty novels, a number of short stories, and one movie. He doesn't seem anxious to do many more, unless they're from his own novels, and he is only asked to supervise...
...against Israel. Today the 3,000,000 Jews who still live in Russia are warned to merge themselves completely in Soviet society (while still carrying documents designating them as Jews) and are discouraged from their own cultural identity. In recent months the world Jewish press has been full of anxious debate about the changing Soviet attitude toward Jews. Last February a British Communist, Professor Hyman Levy, charged that "today there is not a single Jew in the Central Committee, and indeed no Jew in any high position." Last month French Journalist Serge Groussard asked Khrushchev about reports that even...
Painkilling Drug. But his parents are not a bad sort, merely ignorant, stubborn, anxious, self-righteous and poor. Papa is a Swedish immigrant, a brooding, phlegmatic day laborer who can rarely get a day's work. In the evenings he takes to his Bible as to a painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once...