Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anxious minutes after voice contact was lost with the Gemini capsule Molly Brown last week, the fate of the largest man-carrying spaceship ever launched by the U.S. worried a waiting nation. But the electronic blackout had been made familiar by earlier space shots. And despite the fact that the capsule dropped into the Atlantic about 60 miles short of its se lected landing spot, Molly's three-orbit cruise, like the moon flight of Ranger IX, was an all-but-perfect mission. By changing their course three times, Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young demonstrated that U.S. spacemen...
...want to get the training that will let me perform works in the classical repertory along with popular music and folk songs. I'd like to take some lessons in French and German and Italian, as well as learn something about different styles. All this is why I'm anxious to get back to New York and resume my regular singing lessons. I'm studying acting, too--but the most important thing now is my voice...
...available for all to see at a Moscow polling place not a mile from the Kremlin. Sure enough, up wheeled a chauffeured car, and out hopped the familiar figure-not quite as pudgy, not quite as ebullient-but undeniably Nikita Khrushchev. Eager Soviet citizens and reporters swarmed around him, anxious to know how he felt. "I feel just like a pensioner," Nikita replied huskily with a tear in his eye. "All right. All right...
Latin American governments have not complained particularly about the sales - after all, that might not be diplomatic. But the U.S. is anxious to improve its image abroad. From now on all car sales become the responsibility of the ambassador, and the difference between cost v. market price will go to local charities or U.S.-sponsored activities-to be chosen by the ambassador. Moaned one staffer in the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires last week: "The collective loss to the people in this room will be $250,000. What's worse, we don't even get to choose...
While working on the Homage, Soyer was constantly worried that he might fail. He jotted in his progress notes: "Will I be able to capture the tremor in the temples of Jack Levine's portrait, the anxious face of Moses [Soyer's twin brother], or the aura of aloneness about Edward Hopper?" In the end, he largely succeeded, but says Soyer: "The secret of doing big group paintings has been lost. Portraits painted today are fragmentary, personal, capricious, nervous, tentative, incomplete, accidental, at times full of inaccuracies. But they are fascinating-revealing of the artist more than...