Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy was anxious to shore up Yugoslavia's status as a "neutral," seemingly dissident Communist country. But to protect his own domestic political position, the President arranged a welcome that was courteous, correct-and about as cold as a stripper in a snowstorm...
...travelers entering the U.S. last week from Jamaica and Puerto Rico were closely checked for signs of a disease that most of them never heard of: dengue (pronounced deng-gay) fever. The disease hit the Caribbean in July. Ever since, officials with an anxious eye on the coming winter's tourist trade (normally 20,000 to 25,000 visitors a month for Puerto Rico alone) have been waiting hopefully for the epidemics to die out. They are still waiting. New cases last week brought Jamaica's 1963 total close to 500, while Puerto Rico passed...
...startling accidents actually do occur. Last spring, when a flash flood from a rare rainstorm roared down the Siq, a vertical-walled cleft that leads to the famous dead city of Petra, a group of French travelers was trapped, and only two out of 26 survived. Jordanian authorities are anxious to keep the tourists coming, though, and the ancient Siq, reputedly opened by Moses with the flick of a magic rod, is the most dramatic approach to Petra. It would scarcely have seemed proper to install modern water-control devices...
...likes to attend the employees' dances, dinners and athletic events. This is the sort of close-knit spirit encouraged by Edward Antoine Bellande, 65, the balding and genial chairman of the Garrett Corp., a California maker of environmental control systems for jet planes and space capsules. Anxious to keep Garrett both thriving and informal, Bellande has led the fight against a takeover by ailing Curtiss-Wright, which has sought to buy 47% of Garrett's stock. A onetime barnstormer, mail pilot and test pilot who was Charles Lindbergh's copilot on one of the first transcontinental passenger...
...event, neither reason applies to the students under indictment. Their safety was guaranteed by the Cuban government which was anxious to exploit their trip for propaganda purposes. Also, the Cubans paid the entire cost of the junket. Far from bringing dollars to Castro, the trip involved an outflow of pesos from Cuba. By contrast, newspapermen and others whom the State Department allows to go to Cuba spend money there...