Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that there was sustained selling pressure; it was just that no one seemed very anxious to buy. "The tape wasn't huffing and puffing, let alone skipping digits," said Monte Gordon, chief analyst for Bache & Co. "When there's selling pressure, believe me, you really feel it on the floor." The market broke sharply and declined 12.46 at midweek, going through the previous week's low and causing brokers to brace for a weekend selloff. It never came. The averages vacillated between gain and loss at week's end as investors obviously tried to decide just...
...president of sprawling RCA, even though his contract for the $200,000-a-year job still had more than five years to run. Burns has never given a reason-and neither has RCA. In the succeeding months-and years-he got the customary offers from other companies anxious to hire a top-level manager, but turned them all down. "There are not," he said, "many jobs available on that level." Burns largely dropped out of sight; he became a private consultant to several companies, served as vice chairman for E. F. MacDonald Co. (Plaid Stamps...
...night, a bid for freedom that ends as a muddy, bloody wrestling match. Though Author Fowles's harrowing final chapters are only capsuled on film, The Collector, even with its intelligence and insight curtailed, still pays off handsomely as a shocker sure to quicken the pulse of any anxious working girl who has to walk home unescorted...
...doting benefactor, but he had other irons in the fire. Immediately on his arrival in Munich he asked that his close friend, Conductor Hans von Bülow, be brought from Berlin to conduct Tristan. While he valued Von Bülow's talents, he was even more anxious to secure those of Cosima, the conductor's wife (and daughter of Composer Franz Liszt), who had been Wagner's secret mistress for a year...
...worry about in good times and bad times. If I weren't worried, I wouldn't be in business." Lyndon Johnson tried to ease the unease that Martin had aggravated, took pains to reassure the nation that "there is no reason for gloom or doom." Thousands of anxious investors sold their shares, sending the stock market into its sharpest drop since President Kennedy's assassination...