Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million since Meyner took office), warned New Jersey to "Get a new governor or get new taxes." For his part, Democrat Meyner continued to campaign like a man with his ears plugged. Confident that he would win, he did everything he could to avoid rocking the boat. Anxious to prove that he could win by himself, he turned down all offers of outside Democratic help...
When, early in the week, Saudi Arabia's King Saud offered to mediate the Turkish-Syrian quarrel, Syria's ailing President Shukri el Kuwatly grabbed at the offer. "We accept your effort with all satisfaction," he said. In the U.N. the other Arab nations, anxious to forestall further Russian meddling in the Middle East, privately urged the Syrians to accept Saud's good offices. (The sole exception: Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser regards Saud as a dangerous rival for leadership of the Arab world.) Then the word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate...
...Midway Field was originally built for the canvas-covered planes of 1927; today it is the world's busiest airport, and far behind the times. While Chicago has put $25 million into its new O'Hare Field, 15 miles from the Loop, few airlines are anxious to use it until better access-highways and other improvements totaling $100 million are provided...
...usually climbs into the TV set after dinner, or sometimes with his dinner, and fiddles with a few wires. Daddy and Mummy also play a game called "Cigar Hunt," which Mummy generally wins with the magic words. "All right . . . hand it over!" For Mummy's sake Benjy is anxious to straighten out poor Daddy. Speaking in the third person, as he sometimes does, Benjy promises that when he goes to school, "he's going to study hard, hard ... so he'll get two diplomas. Then he can give one to Daddy...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 17--The United States today initiated urgent consultations with other nations on a Middle East U.N. inquiry. This country is anxious for a Middle East debate in order to show "who is really responsible for tension in that area...