Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendes-France is as anxious as anyone else that communism be met with strength. He is convinced that a strong France is vital to the interests of the free world. But he also knows that French foreign policy cannot be a brittle shell over a rotting core. For communism can breed in the rubble of economic distress as easily as it can overrun an unarmed Germany. The French premier has already begun to boost a standard of living that has revived far too slowly since the war. With a coldly realistic appraisal, he has trimmed France's foreign commitments...
...ones spread their pressures beyond the field of politics into, for instance, movie censoring. Their leadership is heavy with inside-dopesters. Their membership ranks are swelled by new-style indifferents, driven thence by well-meaning moralizers, who are always railing at the indifferents for not taking part in politics. Anxious to conform, the indifferent finds a group- but remains at heart an indifferent. Vetogroup leaders can manipulate the indifferents, but usually for negative, not positive, ends. "By their very nature," says Riesman, "the veto groups exist as defense groups, not as leadership groups." Each group has "a power to stop...
...politics is heavily influenced by inside-dopesterism and veto-groupism, the observer would expect to find great difficulty in the formation and expression of clear goals, and that is what observers have found in U.S. peacetime policy of the last 20 years, including the last two. The U.S., anxious for approval, listens closely to the signals of the others in the peer group of cooperating nations. It should and must. But it will not, for instance, find goals or policies in the preoccupation explained by an article in this week's New York Times Magazine headed "Do the British...
...Maritime Provinces and New foundland. Casualties: 18 dead; damages: an estimated $50 million. Edna's indisputable claim to fame, however, was in the fact that she scared more people than she injured. Fifty million Americans, Bahamians and Canadians, living on or near Edna's path, kept an anxious eye on her meanderings through the week, and did not really relax until she finally spun out into the North Atlantic...
...figures the patient handicapper may judge a thoroughbred's breeding, consistency and condition, its ability to carry the assigned weight, the skill of the jockey and the ability of the trainer. Then he must learn how to check his judgment in the paddock. Does his horse look nervous? anxious to run? Matheson, says Matheson, can teach the student how to tell...