Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lebanon is a tiny, prosperous Middle East state finely balanced on the head of a religious pin. Roughly half Christian and half Moslem, it does not know which sect predominates and is anxious not to find out. It refuses to take a census and traditionally divides the top government posts so that the President is a Christian and the Premier a Moslem...
...plantations near the Soviet frontier, but planned to return to Teheran for the Shah's 35th birthday celebration. When he arrived at the airstrip at Gurgan, the pilot of his single-engined Piper pointed to the snow-capped mountains wreathed in ominous clouds, but the prince was anxious to start home. Before he took off, Ali did an act of kindness: into his plane he loaded an old peasant ill with tuberculosis, who needed immediate hospitalization. Then the plane, carrying prince and peasant, headed for the capital two hours away...
Still, the Queen did not quit on her colt. Like an anxious modern mother, she turned to psychiatry for help. There were experts in the Laurel grandstand who believed that Landau had been cured of his inferiority complex and was ready...
...Curtice had followed the progress of the new Chevrolet from first sketches to drafting board to quarter-scale model to clay mockup with all the anxious looks a young father-to-be bestows upon his wife. Now he slowly circled the car, squinting at its lines and lightly touching its smooth surface. When his eye lighted on a horizontal crease in the molding of the trunk, he shook his head. "That's not good," said Curtice. "You'll see that it casts a shadow on the bottom half of the lid. That shadow makes the car look higher...
Apparently inaugurated in Colorado, this newest chain letter fad spread to Yale. It came to Harvard when a Yale sophomore, anxious to make a quick sale, sold it through the mails to an undergraduate here...