Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where the men guzzle fruit juices, mineral water and beer to compensate for sweat (about 2½ gal. per man per day) lost at work. Elaborate meals worthy of a two-star Burgundy restaurant are spread before them. "If they eat only a third of this," says the anxious chef, "they'll get enough calories...
...General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, the President's old Chief of Staff and president of the Red Cross. But feelers put out by the White House indicated that Congress was not too happy about having a retired general as Defense Secretary, and. anyway, Al Gruenther was not too anxious to get back into Government harness. Next man up was John Hannah, president of Michigan State University, who did a thorough job as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Personnel) in 1953-54; he could not be persuaded to leave East Lansing again. Then the big name on Pentagon lips...
With Tenorio, Lott had a stronger case. The army raiders got search warrants in advance and stayed carefully within the law. Other U.D.N. spokesmen were anxious to condemn Lott. But they were reluctant to defend Tenorio until they saw whether ballistic tests on the seized weapons shed any light on the dozens of unsolved murders in Caxias. Nevertheless, Lott's re-emergence as constable of the realm, playing power politics without a by-your-leave from President Kubitschek, stirred uneasy fears of army dominance. Kubitschek, whose declining popularity makes him ever more beholden to Lott, conferred quickly with...
Suffering Psyche. In thrusting stardom upon her, Hollywood has put Kim under a weight of emotional pressure that few young women are called upon to bear. Before every picture, she works herself up to a nervous, racehorse tension and bursts into anxious tears. During production she worries and glooms to the point of nausea. She throws tantrums on the set and off. Says a writer who knew Kim on the way up: "She's been like a quiz contestant who has won all the money before she's been asked any questions. Then, every time they...
...before being passed out to the press: Did Stalin let someone else, without his say-so, edit his remarks? The easy confidence of the happy tourists reflected their satisfaction at the turn of events, but it also raised a question: Had the Malenkov affair been, as Communist sources were anxious to make out, a personal power struggle on the lines of a Maffia feud or a Chicago gang fight? Or was it, remembering the breadth and depth of the Soviet state, and the irreducible fanaticism of the Communist ideology, a power adjustment of pro-founder significance...