Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip is open to any young Americans eltisen," the letter goes on. "We are anxious to see that the places are fairly distributed across the country and include a sizable representation of Afro-Americans and Puerto Ricans...
...Arcy, anxious to throw his strong right hook, consistently held it too low to provide adequate defense against Hanley's jabs which bloodied D'Arcy's face by the second round. Hanley's face-high fists served to block most of D'Arcy's blows, while the champ failed to punch to Hanley's vulnerable body...
...charm like stale champagne. Malle himself must be credited with clever cutting and a well-told tale, but unfortunately he too often vaults from fiction to philosophy, and he has no head for heights. No doubt he is right, if tiresomely unoriginal, when he says that in an anxious age big-city dwellers are too often out of touch with each other and with the fundamental realities of their lives. But the spectator's eyes will probably glaze a little when the death of the gigolo is laboriously identified with the death of the heart in contemporary civilization...
...government is cartel-shy, there have been few big industrial mergers, and Italian businessmen usually shun them because of the heavy tax involved. More than half of the 300 mergers and joint ventures carried out by Common Market companies have been with companies that are outside the market and anxious to gain a foothold within...
...editors are "looking for writers with a voice, with consistency of statement," Mellen claimed. They are anxious to publish experimental work, but not "strange, disconnected, beatnik babblings...