Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anxious to wipe out the memory of those first 45 minutes, the Crimson out-hustled, out-shot, and out-scored the Engineer ten in the closing minutes. Shooting from the left side of the nets, sophomore midfielder Bruce Caputo scored his first varsity goal at 11:07. Lou Williams added the varsity's ninth on a solo dash that covered half the field. It was the big Junior's third tally and his sixth of the season...
Wilson himself is really quite anxious to win games and to understand his players. But his apparent conception of the coach's role as a low pressure, passive adviser often produces an attitude which the team interprets as either negative or apathetic. His attitude rarely produces in his teams any of the "go get 'em" close-knit team spirit which, interestingly enough, is so characteristic of Harvard's freshman teams...
...place capital in the hands of new entrepreneurs, much of whose investment will be in plant and whose dollars therefore will have the "multiplier" effect described by Keynes. (It is assumed--necessarily, through perhaps inaccurately--that such men exist, either independent of the large corporations, or within them, but anxious to be free of them...
Back to the Commodore Hotel went the talk-weary publishers, who might have seen this problem approaching months ago. Aware that the Guild's members were anxious to get back to work, the publishers at first offered them only a token raise of $1.50 a week to take effect Nov.1, 1964. "Wholly inadequate," snapped Murphy, who wanted an extra $4 to make up the difference between the $8.50 package the Guild got last fall and the $12.50 won by the printers. He also wanted a citywide Guild shop, pension plan and medical program. The publishers upped their offer...
British banks, notably the dominant Big Five, have long been exclusively middle-and upper-class institutions. Now anxious to woo the prospering workers, the banks welcomed a provision in the law that would allow workers to have their salaries credited directly to bank accounts. But they feared the prospect of everybody in Britain stampeding to the banks on Friday afternoon to cash their checks. "The banks would be overwhelmed if there were such a mad rush," says Barclays Bank Vice Chairman Ronald Thornton. Small trades men also disliked the idea of having to cash a flurry of checks, fear that...