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Word: anxious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office. Free elections will have to wait at least removal of the Ngos. However, after the attempted coups in 1960 and 1962, which the U.S. failed to support, and the wild vacillation of Americans policy on a coup in recent weeks, South Vietnamese military men are apparently not anxious to risk another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The U.S. in South Vietnam | 10/14/1963 | See Source »

...eight years the West German city of Duisburg has been sinking steadily-and Duisburg's anxious citizens have cheered every lost inch. In an engineering project of constantly increasing complexity, the city is being lowered on purpose, for Duisburg must sink to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Engineering: Sinking City | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...experiment was initiated in South House on the request of the Faculty associates, who complained that when they went to the 'Cliffe for lunch there were not enough girls there and that there was not sufficient time to talk to those who were. If the students, who are always anxious for more Faculty members to come to the 'Cliffe, are not interested in the experiment, it will be discouraging for the Faculty associates...

Author: By Susan Engelke, | Title: Honor System's Failure Puts Checkers at 'Cliffe | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

Erhard is anxious to make as few Cabinet changes as possible when he takes office on Oct. 16. He plans to install Erich Mende, leader of the coalition Free Democratic Party, as Vice Chancellor and Science Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Time of the Sphinx | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

Defending Alabama's Wallace, in fact, was something that only the Charleston News & Courier seemed anxious to do. The true villains, that paper said, were the Alabama officials who were "trying to integrate the public schools under court order despite the efforts of Governor George Wallace to close them rather than mix." For the News & Courier, which boasts an editorial policy based on the argument that Lincoln never really meant to emancipate the slaves, even that comment was remarkably restrained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The South's New Voice | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

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