Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Arendt's observation on the "unchained, unbridled private initiative of capitalism, which in the absence of natural wealth has led everywhere to unhappiness and mass poverty." It is precisely "unhappiness and mass poverty"--partially the child of irresponsible capitalism--which creates the revolutions Time is so piously anxious to avoid...
...fact that since Gaitskell's death, the flinty, quick-witted Yorkshireman has had to move closer to the political center to hold the party together and take hard and fast stands on which Britain's electorate can weigh the merits of a Labor government. Wilson was plainly anxious to win the New Frontier's confidence. After an in tensive, four-day round of conferences with President Kennedy and key administrative hands, the Labor leader's views on most outstanding world issues seemed now at least as close to U.S. policy as Harold Macmillan...
...average tariff on a wide range of industrial goods imported from outside the Common Market. The latest reduction was intended as a good-will gesture on the eve of tariff-cutting negotiations with the U.S. in Geneva next month. However, what the U.S. is primarily anxious to secure at Geneva-its European market for agricultural exports-will not be up for negotiation, since the Common Market nations last week were unable to agree on their own price levels...
...dispute between Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia added an undertone of tension to the otherwise calm meeting of the Association of Southeast Asia. Not on the official agenda, the Malaysia question came up repeatedly in long private discussions between Abdul Rahman and Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal. The Tunku was anxious for the whole matter to be settled quietly. In an attempt to be reasonable and friendly with his "Malay brothers," he agreed to look into the Filipino claim to North Borneo, lukewarmly endorsed a proposal for an Asian summit meeting between himself, Macapagal, and Indonesia's Sukarno...
...next day by the 525-member Guild, representing editorial and commercial employees. Printers, mailers and machinists joined the picket lines too, but it was the Guild that kept the strike going for most of its 18½ weeks. In New York, ironically, it was the Guildsmen who were most anxious to get back to work...