Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tragically insufficient. I would even say it is not serious." The Conservatives would just as soon delay until a new election was forced, scenting that they might pick up some of the 37 seats now held by the discredited Poujadists. The Socialists, whose votes Pflimlin next solicited, were not anxious to face their electoral supporters at this month's party congress as supporters of a Catholic Premier. "Just answer yes or no," said Pflimlin. The Socialists answered...
Somehow, out of all this vast confusion (amplified by the presence of five pony-sized Irish wolfhounds, cast as hunting dogs) emerged as powerful and moving a performance as British operagoers have seen in many years. Berlioz was anxious in The Trojans to restore pure song to first place in opera, and he succeeded magnificently. The work is studded with lovely arias bathed in richly hued orchestration. The musical theme that runs through the opera is the broad pomp-and-circumstantial Trojan March, first heard with ironic overtones as the Trojans, tired of Cassandra's doom-singing, drag...
...week's end, while man plodded resolutely ahead with plans to fly to the moon, the A.M.A. set up a press conference for Dr. Berger to meet reporters anxious to ask for documentation of his charges. He did not show up. later firmly turned away all such queries. Meanwhile, the American College of Sports Medicine decided to look into the situation...
...terms of actual requirements, he observed, the University was even more lenient. While the implicit expectation of high grades could make many students intensely anxious about their inattention to their studies, the actual requirements could be met with almost no effort by anybody actually admitted to the University...
...class began to gather before University Hall at 10 p.m. while anxious parents looked heavenward to see whether precipitation would occur before the march to the flag-decked quadrangle began. "What lovely raindrops," remarked Lowell House Master Elliot Perkins, arriving at the scene as a little rain fell...