Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem is an old one, and on the surface a trivial one. A lot of people are simply so nervous and anxious during an examination that they fail to think carefully what the whole thing is all about before they begin. Even the veteran facing his 30th blue book can be struck by this particular malady; it happens to the blase as well as the quivering...
Downstairs, meanwhile, a cluster of anxious monsignors waited for some word. Newsmen gathered in a courtyard. At last Dr. Galeazzi-Lisi came down. "The Holy Father's condition is disquieting but not unhopeful," he said, "so long as there is no heart collapse." Misinterpreting the doctor's last words, an excited Italian newsman breathlessly told his paper that the Pope had suffered a heart attack...
...Pope was still gravely ill, and the long, anxious watch went on-a watch in which millions of people in other faiths joined. Roman Catholics all over the world prayed: "O God graciously look upon Thy servant Pius . . . that he may profit his subjects both by word and example and, together with the flock committed to his care, attain to eternal life...
There were signs that Communists as well as Socialists were stirring up the dissatisfaction. But it was also plain that young Germans are not eager to get into uniform; most are at best indifferent, willing to serve but not anxious to volunteer. Said one German before a Cologne youth forum: "My whole family was at the front in the last war: my father and my brother-in-law. Our family was bombed out. Now I ask you why I should become a soldier. I have no one to defend...
Violence Without Conscience. An anxious and concerned public, Lindner says, has received from the "experts" only absurd theories and warmed-over nostrums...