Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government, anxious to increase U.S. aluminum capacity without building the Big Three still bigger, decided to try Harvey again. The General Services Administration gave Harvey a letter of intent, offering the company federal help in building a plant at The Dalles. Harvey went ahead and bought 500 acres for a plant site. Then new trouble boiled up. Harvey had been planning to supply the plant with electric power from the federal Bonneville Power Administration...
Says Professor Earl Hubert Furgeson, 49, who teaches preaching, pastoral theology and worship at the Methodists' Westminster (Md.) Theological Seminary: "I found I was anxious when I met with troubled patients. And I could not be effective until I understood why I was anxious. The course forces a man to look at his real motivations...
...alarm. Seventeen Arab and Asian nations asked the U.N. to intervene. In Karachi, 5,000 Moslems burst through police lines and burned an effigy of "French Colonialism." The U.S., with some 20,000 Americans stationed at the four SAC air bases in Morocco, maneuvered to keep from being involved. Anxious to support the cause of Arab freedom, yet loth to antagonize NATO Partner France, Washington only expressed concern and asked the French government not to use U.S. equipment in its African colonies...
...same precautions were taken in Switzerland as we would take in the U.S. There was no reflection on the Swiss people any more than there would be on the citizenry of any place the President might visit in America. The Swiss police were most cooperative, and were as anxious as we were to see that the President arrived and departed safely...
...told," he said, "that on the one hand I'm coy and undecided and on the other hand I'm eager and anxious. I've even heard it said that I cannot make up my mind." While the newsmen scribbled, Stevenson promised to announce his decision-soon. "I shall tell you what I'm going to do," he said, "by the end of November, and possibly some time before...