Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both the Queen and Prince Philip have always been anxious to have more children, and they are very happy about it." said a palace spokesman. Most everybody in Britain apparently felt the same way. When the 33-year-old Queen and her family withdrew for the weekend to bleak Balmoral Castle, Scotland, thousands of curious tourists jammed the neighborhood, and extra police were rushed to Balmoral to fend off rubbernecks...
...million young Indians jammed back into the nation's schools for another year, nearly a million of them under the academic umbrellas of India's-38 huge, state-supported universities. And louder than ever rose the cries of frustration from thousands of rejected university applicants and their anxious parents...
...prosaic parents, drives young Arthur to a basement escape with his contemporaries, where furtive beers foam up into braggadocio, cigarettes mingle with clumsy sex experiments, and draw poker alternates with the raw pathos that gives the picture its fleeting moments of real feeling. It is only in the quiet, anxious scenes of awakening love that Director-Co-Writer Philip Dunne manages to capture the pains and confusion of adolescence and the awful homemade isolation of children from their parents. He is fortunate to have as the children plaintive, pony-tailed Carol Lynley, 17. and blond, handsome 17-year-old Brandon...
...inviting is the prospect of a Europe economically united that still another nation was anxious to join the Outer Seven. But little Finland has to be mindful of what Big Neighbor Russia thinks. Predictably, Pravda grumbled last week that 'Finland should watch out for entangling political alliances. Wise in the ways of Soviet nuance and tone, the Finns decided that the Russians were only growling, not really mad. Accordingly > the Finns promised the Soviets to wait until the final wording of the agreement before joining, but meantime agreed to join the Outer Seven in drawing up the final draft...
Jordan. In the same anxious week a year ago, British troops returned to Jordan. The loneliest ruler in the Middle East when the British troops pulled out in the fall, 23-year-old King Hussein has held his shaky military regime together with his own courage and $50 million from the U.S. Nasser, caught up in a struggle for power with Kassem, has quit his vicious radio attacks on the little King, now talks of resuming relations with Jordan...