Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaccine appears most effective against the worst forms of polio. These results were most clear-cut in the eleven states where vaccine was contrasted with placebo; in the 33 states where children received either real vaccine or nothing, the results were similar but a bit blurred. (Probable reason: anxious parents of children who got no shots may have had them inoculated on the side with gamma globulin, which has a short-lived protective effect.) Among the children who were observed for evidence of polio but who got no shots, there were eleven deaths. Among children who got placebo shots, there...
...best Widener can do is finally to request the tardy professor's permission to release his name to the anxious students. If they faculty member agrees, the undergraduate may be privileged to take a bus-ride over to Brookline and read the volume at the professor's home. If not, he might as well give up and saunter down Widener's steps and into the Yard, resolutely humming "Rock of Ages...
...Those who found heroin or morphine pleasant were immature, impulsive, self-centered, anxious and hostile, and given to daydreaming or fantastic ambitions...
...seats. The decisive victor, with 10 out of 25 seats: the Labor Front, another Westernized party, endorsed by Clement Attlee's Socialists in Britain, which stands for mild socialism and pitches its appeal to the industrial workers, who are mostly Indians. The parties that had stirred the most anxious interest before the poll finished up as also-rans: the Communist-supported People's Action Party and the well-heeled, neutralist Democratic Party, both of which appealed almost exclusively to Singapore's predominant (80%) community of overseas Chinese...
...over the guaranteed annual wage in the auto industry is lessening. Autoworkers' Walter Reuther is not adamant on the union's guaranteed-wage plan, says he will listen to other proposals that might be "better or more practical." And with output at a peak, auto companies are anxious to work out some reasonable settlement...