Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed the most plausible, the fact was that even the U.S. had no clear idea of what the attacks might foreshadow. Moscow, of course, weighed in with a charge that the U.S. retaliation was an "open and hostile action," but its reaction was remarkably restrained. The Kremlin was clearly anxious to avoid getting involved too closely in Communist China's designs. Hanoi reacted to the U.S. action with contrived indignation. Peking waited nearly 24 hours, then declared that the U.S. "has gone over the brink of war" and warned that "the debt of blood incurred...
...amid talk that too many New Yorkers would consider him a carpetbagger from Massachusetts. Now he seemed to be reconsidering. At week's end, without any fanfare, he met privately for an hour in Manhattan with New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, who is not particularly anxious to see Bobby make the race. After the meeting, Kennedy left as silently as he had arrived, and went away for a few more days of thought...
Would legislation be any more effective than the vain protests of millions of anxious parents? Britain's youth, with more shillings in its pockets than ever, seeks escape from boredom-and from the hearth. "My Dad's trying to get me to join the Young Conservatives," sniffs a teen-age girl. "But I like this set. They're nice, and they say what they mean." "We hope to stay smart forever, not shoddy like our parents," adds a Mod leader...
...Negotiators. At this anxious moment, who should turn up in Leopoldville but a batch of white mercenaries from Johannesburg eager to sign up on Tshombe's side, just as they had done back in the old days when he needed outside help to keep Katanga independent. Good news for Moise? Perhaps. But the mercenaries posed a nightmarish problem for U.S. officials on the scene. They are inclined to help the old Katanga renegade now that he is on the side of Congo unity, but would be acutely embarrassed to find themselves allied with South African racists in the process...
...orchestra loved it, and so did Leinsdorf. "I was very anxious about the whole thing, really, but it turned out delightfully," he said later in his dressing room. "It was more like mapping out a campaign than conducting an orchestra...