Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since both sides seemed to be anxious for a peaceful settlement, few industry leaders expect a strike. Auto cutbacks have eased demand in the past month, taking some of the steam out of union claims that the industry will be operating at capacity for the foreseeable future. Said a union official last week: "This one should be real good and real quick...
...risk of being caught at it. The furor swelled. Britain's Labor leaders had a special reason for pressing the attack. They were embarrassed by rank-and-file criticism that they had been unmannerly to B. & K. at the famous dinner party (TIME, May 7) and were anxious to convict Sir Anthony of even cruder mistreatment of his guests. They threatened a motion to cut Eden's salary-a formal method of bringing a Minister's personal competence into question...
...circumstance worthy of his impressive titles, a bespectacled Nepalese named Mahendra was last week crowned King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor. With the towering Himalayas as a backdrop, and money no object, it was the subcontinent's party of the year. Everybody was anxious to make the coronation a thumping success. Distrusting the manners of their local waiters, the Nepalese had imported 130 skilled servitors from India to minister to the distinguished guests. The best chef in town was sprung from jail (where he was serving a sentence for bootlegging) to supervise the feasts...
...state hospitals." Later, "much the same panegyrics attended the spread of the shock gospel as had attended the spread of lobotomy and -in a previous generation-the spread of phrenology." Electric shock is in a way a "punitive" treatment, Dr. Bailey suggested, and should be limited to the involutional anxious melancholic, a type of case in which it is sometimes spectacularly effective...
...Enthusiast. Twelve is an age of enthusiasm. Twelve rushes headlong into debates without really knowing what he is going to say; he may be so anxious to join a certain activity that he may knock things over on the way. Unlike Eleven, who tended to hoard his money, Twelve is sometimes such a spendthrift that he is often flat broke. As one mother put it, "He can't stand prosperity." He is far more concerned about his appearance but only up to a point. A girl might spend hours primping in front of a mirror...