Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just too big to do all of their primping in public. But smaller breeds in the Westminster Kennel Club show at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week turned the rank and echoing Garden cellar into a tonsorial riot. Handlers and owners worked over their charges like anxious mothers. Long hair was stripped and scissored, combed and brushed; paws were groomed. "Of course it's illegal," muttered one handler vigorously covering black smudges with cornstarch. "But what in hell are you supposed to do when you have to travel 500 miles with a white poodle...
...should bow in shame for having the author of "The Negative Power" on its staff. Writing of this sort is as much a sin as segregation itself. Such articles, which give no credit for any reasonable efforts at conforming to the Supreme Court's decision, make us almost anxious to join Dixie demagogues just for spite. Do you honestly think it was a report of news, or just an opportunity for a Yankee snob to feel smug...
Bypassed Phantoms. The gas bill's supporters, anxious to get it passed and rid gas producers of federal supervision, were aghast. The contribution to Case, suggested Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, was a "dead cat" planted by an opponent of the bill so as to cast suspicion on all Senators voting for the measure. And, snapped Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, Case had better be ready to detail his charges "if he expects to stay in public life." Between the time of Case's speech and the day on which the gas-bill vote...
...speculated that "perhaps the Russian Revolution is over, and the two opposing world camps will settle down much as did Christianity and Islam after the Arabs' and Christians' crusading fervor was spent. You can't keep the revolutionary fires buring forever, you know." Brinton said that the Soviets are anxious to have less international "heartburn," but that he does not think they are ready to democratize their regime. "They're not going to become staff writers for LIFE yet," he added...
...that woman is so anxious for him to have a party, why doesn't she throw one herself? All this talk looks to me like a put-up job," he said...