Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the grain deal is tricky politics at best, the Kennedy Administration is doing its best to make it appear no giveaway. Anxious to see the deal go through, U.S. shippers have agreed to trim their prices to within a few dollars of foreign rates. The Administration also has another way around its shipping dilemma: let its eager private dealers sell the grain on a "cost-and-freight" basis, under which they will arrange the shipping themselves, and include the cost in the total package. The dealers will take a chance on getting smaller profits if they have to ship...
Among his fellow Senate correspondents, the United Press's Allen Drury was not considered much shakes. He had a preoccupied air about him, spent much of his time in the periodicals lounge just off the Senate gallery, always seemed anxious to get away as early as possible in the afternoons...
...statements, the Administration denied the validity of evidence that Russia had bowed out of the moon race. It claimed that Premier Khrushchev's disavowal of Soviet interest in putting a man on the moon was only a ploy to slow down American efforts. This suggested that the Administration was anxious to continue using the word "race" regardless of Russian intentions...
Even after this unwelcome expense, the News of the World was anxious to keep Churchill, if only for sentimental reasons: back in the 1930s, Randolph's father had been a frequent and fiery contributor to the paper. But Randolph is not very keepable. Only last month, when the World refused to publish an intemperate Churchill attack on Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson-whom Churchill described as "a barefoot dog"-Churchill had to pay a left-wing Labor weekly to carry the column...
Poor man, an ape, anxious to use his paws...