Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rumble came about when Speaker John McCormack, anxious to speed toward adjournment, tried to force sev en bills out of the Rules Committee by applying the "21 -Day Rule," passed last January. It provides that if a bill has been held in committee for 21 days, it can be blasted out by a majority vote on the floor. Republicans and some Southern Democrats thought McCormack was being too highhanded...
...Thus far, Peru's edgy military has kept its mind on the Communists. Last week a force of 600 troops was closing in on the main body of guerrillas, estimated at about 500 men, in a mountainous area 300 miles east of Lima. But the military men are anxious for a clear indication of Belaúnde's leadership. "Most of us do not want another military dictatorship,' said one general, "but if the civilians are blind to the Communist danger, we would feel duty-bound to step...
Need for Salvation. "I have called you today," Constantine began, "to ask for your opinions on how the political crisis is to be faced. I am deeply anxious because of the serious dangers for the country's economy, the country's international position, the development of the great national question of Cyprus and the internal situation. The acute nature of political passions is undermining and tending to destroy the spiritual unity of the nation...
...triangle ran between $600,000 and $800,000, according to federal estimates. In the last ten years the price of real estate has actually quadrupled-from a song to a high-pitched scream of disbelief. Nevertheless, there is still an apparently endless waiting list of people who are anxious...
...spreading the work thinner. That was the idea behind the U.S.W.'s pioneering 13-week vacation plan adopted in 1963. In the current shipping strike, the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union is interested almost exclusively in guaranteed vacations and pensions. Black Eyes for All. Abel was not anxious to strike. His men have barely recouped income losses suffered during the record 116-day walkout in 1959, and the union is still racked by internal dissension as a result of longtime President David McDonald's disputed election defeat by Abel last February. Nonetheless, Abel was anxious to make...