Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle and Erhard tacitly agreed to disagree without visible image-damaging acrimony. For his part, Erhard agreed to leave open for the time being any increase in the Common Market's control over the Six's farm financing policies-a creeping tide of supranationalism De Gaulle is anxious to arrest. De Gaulle in turn consented to a vague agreement to consider a summit conference of the six Common Market heads of state this year to discuss European political organization. Under the circumstances, it was, as a German spokesman put it, "a good result...
Ghostly Silence. The television potential, along with the South's sports-minded population, explains why the N.F.L.'s Commissioner Rozelle is so anxious to beat the upstart A.F.L. into Georgia. The stronger N.F.L. has already lined up equally prestigious backers to support a franchise. Among the members of a syndicate dickering for a team: Texas Oilman John Mecom Jr., Indianapolis Speedway Owner Tony Hulman, Coca-Cola Heir Lindsey Hopkins Jr. So far, Atlanta's Stadium Authority has been playing it cozy, says only that no decision on rental rights will be made until July...
There is something very freeing about adversity. Given the difficult job of putting on a play, in one end of a House dining room or in the cramped Experimental Theatre, these same anxious students can assume they will be forgiven their lapses; in consequence they often make fewer...
Correspondents have learned to be wary of the anonymous Government official anxious to launch a trial bal loon for some new policy. The reporter can never be sure when an official denial will leave him and his story out on a limb. Secretary of Defense Robert Mc-Namara, for example, recently attended a background dinner with reporters at which he remarked that nuclear weapons had not been ruled out for use in Viet Nam. Columnist Doris Fleeson, who was not at the dinner, got the details nonetheless. When she printed them, McNamara, following the established rules of the game, denied...
...hands now dangle too close to her knees, and she faces more surgery to shorten her arms - operations that are technically more forbidding because of the delicate neuromuscular control needed for the hands. But she is anxious to get on with it. "The most wonderful moment of all," she says, "will be when I can walk down the street looking at other people instead of trying to hide from them...