Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mild economic pinch was already swinging a powerful psychological punch. In many U.S. cities, recession ranked with Sputniks as a topic of furrowed-brow talk. With new jobs harder to find than six months ago, workers were suddenly anxious to hold on to the jobs they had. Not because they were broke, but because they were worried, people were postponing big purchases, cutting down sharply on luxuries. Mourned a Los Angeles night-owner as he cast an eye over empty bar stools: "I guess I'll have to trim the $2 cover charge. Six months ago it didn...
Three of the Radcliffe clubs polled indicated that they were anxious to combine with their Harvard counterparts, but that the Harvard executive boards were unwilling to consider a merger...
...other hand, many market experts realize that the same psychological whimsy that has sent the market into a slump can halt its decline at the least sign of brightening economic weather. At week's end, Wall Street kept an anxious eye on the business barometers. Said Walston & Co.'s Edmund W. Tabell, one of the Street's top market analysts: "If Christmas sales and automobile sales pick up, 420 will be the bear market...
...week for the Senate seat held by aging (77) New Jersey Republican H. Alexander Smith: redhaired, boutonniered Bernard Michael Shanley, 54, who resigned as President Eisenhower's Appointments Secretary to go home and run. Shanley's plan infuriated New Jersey Republicans, who knew that Alex Smith was anxious to retire after 2½ terms, hoped to select his successor without a bloodletting primary. Irritating them also was Shanley's lightweight claim to political fame. In four years at the White House, the onetime Stassen-for-President strategist has tried to influence patronage, has riled Smith and Senator...
...hungry pool of mud left in mid-field by Friday's rain. Harvard's short passing attack slowed halfway through the second quarter after the team's spirited first quarter burst, and as the half ended, fullbacks Lanny Keyes and Chris Provensen found the Princeton line strong and very anxious to score...