Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fever spread to neighboring Rajasthan state, where anxious parents began marrying off every tot in sight. In Jodhpur district there were 10,000 marriages in which the brides and bridegrooms were between three and twelve years of age, while in Nagor district, mothers carried babies in arms seven times around the sacred fire to solemnize marital vows...
...fact of the matter is that Britain is not very interested in the international situation in the Pacific. She is very anxious to trade with China, whether it is Communist or nonCommunist...
Middle Ground of Hope. Eventually, says Montreal's Dr. Lehmann, the physiological and analytic schools will have to meet on common ground in the middle. His quietly persuasive argument: the analysts talk of ego defenses being torn down in a psychosis, and when this happens the already anxious patient is overwhelmed. Psychotherapy tries to restore the ego, but this is extremely difficult because the anxiety, now almost a physical entity, has unleashed a flood of physiological processes...
...loud talking; and nothing more than a word ought to be necessary to make them more careful in their behavior. Their actions have arisen from thoughtlessness more then anything else. No such pardonable carelessness, however, can be attributed to the there are not a few of them are anxious to take some popular reference book out overnight. They therefore adopt the plan of coming to the Library earlier in the day, capturing the book they want and hiding it in some safe place. When the time comes for taking reserved books out, they appear and triumphantly bear away the missing...
...Workshop, an experimental group which produces plays written by undergraduates, may even have a regularly televised series next fall. "I'm sure many people would be very anxious to write plays specially for television," Stephen A. Aaron, director of the Workshop, said last night...