Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George L. Clarke '27, Harvard ecologist, is anxious to save it because it is the only area near Harvard which "combines accessibility with an opportunity to study the fauna and flora characteristics of the river bank...
...singing." Six of his top lieutenants were rounded up by the French police, and whirring helicopters blanketed the native quarters with leaflets proclaiming that Yacef now conceded that he had misled his fellow Moslems by urging them to revolt. His capture was a serious blow to the Algerian rebels. Anxious to show that it was not a fatal one, Moslem terrorists slipped into the heart of Constantine, third biggest (pop. 118,000) of Algeria's cities, and for 20 minutes sprayed shop fronts, office windows and automobiles with submachine-gun bullets...
Last week, convinced that the time had come "to meet the people and answer my critics," Sir Roy set off on a five-day tour of "enemy territory"-the bush country of Nyasaland, whose 2,500,000 Africans (there are few whites there) are vociferously anxious to get out of the federation. At one of his early stops in southern Nyasaland, scene of bloody African riots in the days immediately preceding federation, Sir Roy wowed his audience by declaring "I am an African like yourselves. I was born here in Africa." Said one of his audience: "We like Welensky because...
...Uppermost in our minds" were three "haunting questions" posed by Swedish Economist Per Jacobsson, the fund's managing director. The problems: 1) Is it possible to halt inflation in a world so anxious for expansion? 2) Can the ravenous capital appetites of underdeveloped countries be appeased without further inflation (see below)? 3) How can world currencies, undermined by inflation, be stabilized...
Five fire trucks clanged to a stop before University Hall yesterday afternoon after it had been reported that smoke was issuing from Mr. Bulfinch's building. Dean Bundy ran down its historic steps, calming down the breathless firemen, waiting photographers, and anxious students: only the insulation in the basement had caught fire, and everything was under control...