Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Yugoslavs seemed reluctant to discuss politics with their fellow countrymen, Lorenz found that many of them were anxious to talk politics with Americans as a vent for pent-up feelings...
...memory of O'Neill is that he was good-looking, very nervous, extremely impatient with 47, and anxious to get down to live in Greenwich Village... The first [of two plays O'Neill wrote during the year] was inconspicuous, and the latter was labored and stiff. His worst fault, I think, was an ineptitude at dialogue, except when the speakers were raving drunk or profane...
...Anxious to prove a good host, Saigon had gone all out to make an impression on the delegates to the annual meeting of the 21-nation Colombo Plan, the British-fostered scheme designed to help the backward nations of Southeast Asia. New paint gleamed everywhere. Old buildings and the sidewalks before them were scrubbed as clean as any in Amsterdam. Mayor Nguyen Phu Hai had sternly forbidden his citizens to spit in public or walk even partially naked in the streets. Energetic President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital had come a long way from the fear and misery...
SHOPPERS' STAMPS redeemable for either bus rides or parking-lot fees are catching on with downtown stores, anxious to relieve customers' traffic problems. Fifty downtown Milwaukee stores are issuing stamps worth 5? for every dollar spent, and 50 other cities already have similar plans...
...friend says: "Every time he picks up his pencil, there is $300 million at stake." When he is not busy with meetings and administrative problems, he wanders through the studios, changing a line here, suggesting a new idea there, often makes dozens of sketches a day. Gregarious and anxious to keep his temperamental underlings happy, he chats with everyone he meets, shakes hands so much that he even shakes hands with his secretary on his way in and out of his office. "I even kiss the employees' babies at our open houses," says Walker...