Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ridge at 27,000 feet. At last they reached the top, and planted the flags of Italy and Pakistan on the treacherous summit itself. From Skardu last week came this laconic but triumphant message: "Victory dated July 31. All well. Together at base camp. Professor Desio." Anxious to avoid any repetition of the "who got there first" disagreement between Everest's Hillary and Tenzing, Desio had kept the names of the victors secret...
Cyprus, a strategically situated island in the eastern Mediterranean, is a place that has been denied even the long-term hope of independence. The British, anxious to strengthen it as a Middle Eastern base now that Suez has gone, fortnight ago classified Cyprus as one of those parts of their empire which will never be allowed to go free. Last week the British-run government of the island, getting specific, forbade Cypriot agitation for Enosis (union) with Greece. Henceforth, Enosis agitation on Cyprus will be punished as seditious...
...negotiator announced: "There is nothing important left which could produce a deadlock." And last week Premier Fazlollah Zahedi, Iran's soldier strongman, who arrested his nation's decline from Mossadegh to Moscow, indicated that he was prepared to steer his country away from its classic anxious neutrality...
...strings of the parachute caught in the plane's undercarriage. The pilot, anxious to save the ceremony's moment of drama, impulsively reached out of his cockpit to free the scroll. As he fumbled, the plane dropped lower. Too late, the pilot saw his danger and banked his plane sharply. But he lost control of the plane and it nose-dived into the crowd, ten yards from where the Prime Minister and the other VIPs were standing. Casualties: 16 dead, 22 injured-the worst accident in Israel's short history...
Sponsored by two Paris newspapers, Parisien Libéré and L'Equipe, the 51-year-old classic took an anxious four months of preparation. At every stop on the route, Advanceman Elie Wermelinger, onetime Ivory Coast banana planter, had to prepare food and lodging for no competitors, plus an army of 1,400 managers, trainers, handlers, masseurs, timekeepers, mechanics and assorted camp followers. Bawling, cursing and exhorting, Wermelinger careened across France, waging a one-man war to bring temporary order out of wild, Gallic confusion...