Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anxious Quiet. Following instructions from Houston, Cooper and Conrad worked desperately to rejuvenate the balky fuel-cell system. Neither the automatic nor the manual controls for the oxygen tank heater would function. And getting at the heater itself was out of the question. Located in the adapter section, it was inaccessible to the crew. The astronauts flicked switches off and on again and again, trying somehow to stir the system into life. They maneuvered the spacecraft around so chat its blunt end, which housed the fuel-cell system, would get the full impact of the sun's rays...
...anxious quiet set in as Gemini 5 swept over the Atlantic on the beginning of its third revolution. Along with most of the U.S., the astronauts' families huddled close to their TV sets, waiting for some word. Almost everyone was convinced that the spacecraft would have to be brought down during the sixth revolution, before its orbital track took it away from the Pacific recovery area that would be its last convenient rescue location for many hours...
...half of them. Professors say medical students learn anatomy best if only two of them share in dissecting a body; with 8,800 freshmen entering medical schools this year, that would mean 4,400 bodies, plus 1,000 for dental students* and at least 2,000 for research surgeons anxious to practice advanced techniques. By best estimates, U.S. schools are now getting 3,000 bodies a year, only 20% of them by bequest...
...returned to the auctions of old, only slightly toned down. Wary in some cases of local ordinances against gambling while drinking (most Calcutta auctions are held after dinner parties), nervous about the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Calcuttas are gambling operations and therefore subject to tax, and anxious not to displease the U.S.G.A., most clubs now place a limit on the bids and a muzzle on the members. In fact, to hear most officials tell it, the only money that ever changes hands on a golf course these days goes to the caddies. As for that roll that...
...visual aids and laboratory equipment that already constitute a major part of the $1.7 billion a year school-equipment-and-supply business. Similarly, the $375 million mass-transportation subsidy, conceived to save strangling cities, will pour adrenalin into the economy. Impressed by increasing Government-financed mass-transit spending and anxious to get a chunk of the $8 billion equipment market, U.S. Steel last week introduced a new steel and glass car that can be adapted to both bus chassis and rails. Bigger Bites. There is, of course, another big side to the effects of welfare legislation. Higher social security payments...