Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization met in Paris last week in a chastened mood. Britain and France were sulky with the touchiness of those who know they have been found wrong, still think they were right, but are anxious to get back in everybody's good graces. With Russia putting on a show of brutal power in Hungary, the smaller nations had had a terrifying glimpse into a future in which the three senior partners might be split. There was sudden new interest in NATO's defenses, and an urgent search for ways to make...
...week's end the hottest rumor in Rangoon held that Chou was so anxious to make friends that he would even give up his claim to the villages. But the rumor was promptly scotched by at least one knowing agriculturist. "Red China will never give up a claim to that area," he prophesied. "It produces the best coffin wood in the world...
...trustbusters did not charge that the merged companies would create a monopoly; they charged merely that the bigger company "may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly." Both sides were anxious for the first court test of a key legal point: just how big may business legally grow by mergers...
...billion maintenance budget in fiscal 1956, nearly $1.4 billion was for overhauling, and a fourth of this went to U.S. business for its part in maintaining the nation's arsenal. Though private business has made major inroads into a field once almost exclusive to the military, it is anxious to press even farther. The question now facing the Armed Forces: How far should industry be allowed...
...need for NATO as a defense shield. On hand with Dulles in Paris were Defense Secretary Charles Wilson and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, both determined that NATO should not let down its guard. And in the face of the Soviet threat, other NATO members were no longer so anxious to cut costs by slashing NATO manpower...