Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Papagos' government has been slow in working out plans. U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon has kept an anxious eye on the situation, and Washington has been urged to absorb as many of the repatriates as possible under the Greek quota (17,000 a year), and to chip in with money if the Greek government can figure out a workable plan...
...Ministry of Health was so anxious to offer a wide range of services, for example, that it offered free false teeth and eye glasses before Britain had enough dentists and ophthalmologists to supply them. Crowds of already legendary size collected in the offices of overworked physicians, and as they sat and fumed, they cursed the new health program. Compulsory health insurance would present similar problems in the United States, unless increased numbers of nurses, dentists, and doctors could meet the new demand. Even under the current voluntary health insurance program, the nation will be short 15,000 doctors...
...move against his outstanding unsolved problem-a wiry, older nationalist called Son Ngoc Thanh, who is holed up in the jungle. Thanh's People's Movement Party stands to do well against the royalist Union Party in the general elections scheduled for next April, and Norodom was anxious to steal a march on him. The King called a sudden, nationwide referendum. Question put by monarch to people: "Have I kept my promise to give you total independence?" The Cambodian response was overwhelming...
...Viet Minh propaganda line on the 800,000 Vietnamese who have fled to the south is that they were forced by their priests to leave, and are now anxious to return. In Hanoi, the Communists faked hundreds of complaints from refugee families and sent them to the International Control Commission, to divert the commission from complaints of Viet Minh infractions in the north. Last week, in two white jeeps and a black Citroën, a team of truce officers (an Indian, a Canadian and two Communist Poles) drove into a large Roman Catholic refugee settlement at Lacan, about...
...Fast for Rabbits. No doubt about it, Wes was anxious. After one blistering lap, he even got impatient with Northeastern's Dick Ollen, the mechanical rabbit who had served as such a fine pacesetter the last two times they ran. Wes took over the lead and hustled through the first quarter in a man-killing 56.6 seconds. If he had his way, no one was going to get close enough to nudge him with a free-swinging elbow; neither Gunnar Nielsen nor anyone else was going to have enough kick left to catch him in the stretch...