Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every time medical researchers announce a new theory about the causes of atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries by fatty deposits) and the resulting susceptibility to heart attacks and strokes, anxious laymen rush to their doctors to ask, "What should I do?" Last week, in its journal Circulation (circ. 8,000), the American Heart Association took note of the situation with a 16-page report by its nutrition committee...
...cancel out Jagan's power without the face-losing last resort of calling in the troops. But Renison hopes to be able to persuade Jagan to set up a moderate government that can start easing the colony down the road to self-rule. Jagan claims that he is anxious to please. "I am a realist," he says soothingly. "The British government can still exercise full control even though internal self-government is conceded...
...Under the guise of 'motherly' or 'fatherly' affection, boys and girls may be bathed by parents, often of the opposite sex, until adolescence. Children sense at bathing whether a mother's close inspection of the genitals is an honest, brief, physical necessity or an anxious, seductive maneuver . . . Sleeping with children of the opposite sex is prolonged into the teen-age period. The mother may still continue to lie with the son, despite awareness that erections occur." Beyond this is a wide range of openly seductive behavior, from varying degrees of physical intimacy to incest...
...Italy. World Bank, which is expected to help finance Italian project, will ask seven internationally known atom experts to choose best system. Result may largely decide whether other countries will buy Britain's gas-cooled natural-uranium reactors or liquid-cooled enriched-uranium plants, which the U.S. is anxious to export...
...Charles said: "I am going from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown, where no disturbance can be." And to his executioner: "I shall say but a short prayer and, when I hold out my hands thus, strike." The ax flashed and Cromwell's will was done-but so anxious was he to make sure, that he later went to the coffin and searched the wound with his fingers...