Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advertised in top-drawer magazines in full-page advertisements that would bring a blush to a Victorian bartender. New manuals are published constantly, and most of their readers are not nubile neophytes but experienced men and women, interested in the nuances and fine points of the game, apparently anxious to be more like the sexually superior heroes and heroines of the bestsellers (all fictional heroes have to be sexually superior these days, or they are not heroes...
...Appeal to Reason. Even before last week's killing, an anxious Justice Department official had said, "I'm afraid we'll get down to a different kind of Negro-the knife and club type." He explained that the various Negro groups were competing with each other in militancy and fervor, and that there was a danger that the leaders would become followers. "There's competition among the N.A.A.C.P., CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 'Snick' (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and Martin Luther King Jr.'s group. They think the group that's most...
Since the College remains as the the only part of the University which cuts across the various academic fiefs, an administrator anxious to draw together the many parts of Harvard may begin by strengthening the College, and within the College by fortifying the Gen Ed program. For along with the House system, Gen Ed is one of Harvard's two purely "collegiate" programs...
...penny Mauritius "Post Office" Red recently sold in England for $23,800 is known to have belonged to an unlikely philatelist, Manhattan Financier Eddy Gilbert, before he fled to Brazil in last year's E. L. Bruce scandal. And in 1892, a Parisian named Hector Giroux was so anxious to get his hands on the Hawaiian Missionary auctioned last week that he went to Fellow Collector Gaston Leroux, who had the stamp, and murdered him. When detectives finally picked him up on a hunch, Giroux confessed and surrendered the stamp...
...grabbed someone, at any rate, being the key line in a one-minute television commercial that last week won "Recognition"' status in the fourth Annual American TV Commercials Festival. More than 1,200 anxious admen collected in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria to hear the list of winners. But it was not just a list. It was a galactic catalogue of categorical triumphs...