Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played host to a diplomat with an unhyphenated double-barreled name: the new British Labor government's Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, 57, who came calling for a getting-to-know-you chat with top U.S. officials. Both President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk were understandably anxious to find out what difference the British electoral turnover might make in Anglo-American relationships. The conclusion, after talks with Gordon Walker: the Labor government intends to demonstrate that it has a strong, independent mind of its own-but it hasn't quite made up its mind about specific...
...series of speeches back in 1959 and 1960 castigating Lyndon Johnson's "dictatorial" tactics as Senate majority leader. In the 1964 campaign, he made it clear that he was eager to let bygones be bygones, but Proxmire's differences with the President persisted -at the polls. During anxious early hours, in which L.B.J. began rolling up a huge majority in Wisconsin, Bill Proxmire, 49, trailed his moderate Republican opponent, Wilbur Renk, 55. Proxmire finally won, but his victory was less a reflection of his own popularity than of rural distaste for Goldwater's farm policies...
...imprecise use of the language often made it difficult to know just where he stood, as did his offhand treatment of serious subjects. It also laid him open to misinterpretation. Is Goldwater really anxious to plunge the world into nuclear war? Of course...
...steel makers to post a long-sought price hike after the election-especially when fears of inflation do not seem to be deterring other industries from raising prices. In the past few weeks, prices have increased for copper, zinc, tin, chemicals, paper and rubber. Viewing all this, and perhaps anxious to test a harbinger of overall rise, U.S. Steel and Inland Steel last week increased by 17% the price of the reinforcing bars widely used in construction...
Thus passed over, Langdon was anxious to relinquish the B. & O. presidency, which was taken over temporarily last week by Tuohy. From his new position as Rock Island chairman, however, Langdon could end up running the big Union Pacific if the Rock Island merges with it. Langdon is highly regarded in rail circles, and both Union Pacific President Arthur E. Stoddard and Chairman E. Roland Harriman are approaching the road's retirement...