Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what is darkly referred to as "the dark million." Nearly half (about 450,000) of them are West Indians, with the remainder about equally divided among Indians, Pakistanis and Africans, and projections are for 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 by the turn of the century. Recently an anxious M.P. discussed in the Spectator the likelihood that "we should be come a chocolate-colored, Afro-Asian mixed society...
Acerbic Speech. Naturally, Hollywood was anxious to see the Eastern Medusa, and the Hollywood Publicists' Guild invited Mrs. Crist to address a luncheon in Beverly Hills last month. If there was an outstretched hand, she not only disdained it; she bit it. Following Frank Sinatra's light and witty talk on his life and loves ("Must have had six gag writers," mused Crist), she plunged into an acerbic speech: "Back where I come from, Hollywood is a dirty word." Said an aggrieved 20th Century-Fox publicist: "She is a snide, supercilious, sour bitch. The thing she would hate...
...next morning, high-ranking army officers, anxious to use the revolt as an excuse for getting rid of Reid, told him that they would not fire on the rebel troops. Reid had no choice but to resign, and fled into hiding at a friend's home. It was already too late to smother the mob's pent-up passions. Insistently, the rebel radio exhorted: "Kill a policeman! Kill a policeman!" "Come into the street and bring three or four others with you!" The frightened army men who had forced Reid's resignation turned the government over...
...Murrow's solemn, dramatic style of news delivery has gone out of fashion in TV today. The newscasters of strive for a lighter touch in the manner of Huntley and Brinkley. But Murrow perfectly suited his anxious era. As he himself once explained: "The timing was right and the instrument powerful...
...HUNGARY. Tourists who smuggle in scarce drugs or dabble in the black market for dollars are in for a tough time. Last year an American got ten months in jail for cracking up a rented car-it was state property. Anxious to show change as well as to harvest dollars, Hungary is generally cordial to former Hungarians who fled...