Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, Nasser is most anxious to establish an Egyptian hegemony among the Arab states. Only the threat of an outside foe can overcome the mutual jealousies that ordinarily tend to separate the Arabs, so once again, Allon said, Nasser must keep before his would-be allies the image of a threatening Israel...
...tyranny of Red China. The West's course should be to: 1) help the East before it helps itself at the West's expense, 2) pool sovereignties in a supranational organization that could solve and mitigate the problems with which today's fanatic neophyte nationalisms are anxious but technologically impotent to cope...
...future hope. Now the South Africa where Rhodes made his fortune seeks to deny the blacks even a future claim to equality. To the north, in the lands named for Rhodes, South Africa's course is viewed with foreboding, but Rhodesia's own halfway house is an anxious place. The tendency among the frightened and the angry is to find ingenious definitions of "civilized" to exclude as many blacks as possible. Last month Southern Rhodesia's whites erupted in angry debate after a government commission proposed that anybody, white or black, was entitled to vote...
Actually, Boston's story is simple. Boston was first a part of the Atlantic Ocean. Gradually the ocean gave way to the North End, and cows came to feed on the greener, moister, North End grass. Puritans followed shortly, anxious to turn cows into milk; and, pursued by Puritans, the cows wandered about the North End, laying out Boston's streets...
Elsewhere, college students were putting away their books and preparing for vacation. At Nags Head, N.C. last week, 97 students were just arriving for class. Old anglers anxious to learn new tricks and novices who had never wet a line lugged tackle from as far south as Florida, as far west as Illinois for a short course in sport fishing, sponsored by North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering. They were the kind of pupils a professor prays for-housewives, doctors, lawyers, mechanics. None had a thought of cutting a class; all were anxious for final exams, the chance...