Word: anxious
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...seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, which left him time to serve on only one major committee dealing in matters of tangible concern to the voters back home. Since 1957 he has traveled to South America, Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. He has supported Kennedy regularly but is anxious to be free from the uniform Democratic opinions which the Administration and leadership of the Foreign Affairs Committee encourage. This requires a steady, often taxing, effort to develop and expound his own positions. Church's record on domestic legislation is spotty and difficult to classify. On most subjects his public statements...
...Eliot has approximately the same proportion of public and private school boys as the other houses, the House has attracted boys whose whose temperaments and tastes are usually associated with a private school background. Its members tend to take life less seriously than those in other houses and, although anxious to thrust ahead, do not like to express this anxiety too openly. They form a congenial, closely knit group and participate faithfully in house activities--this year Eliot is a leading contender for the Strauss trophy that goes to the over-all leader in the Interhouse athletic leagues. Although...
...although Prime Minister John Diefenbaker is given less chance to squeak through again, there seems to be no national consensus, or leadership, capable of effectively uniting the western farmers, Ontario factory workers, underemployed Nova Scotia coal miners, or Quebec's restless French Canadians, who seem more and more anxious to move into a separate world of their own. In Vancouver's Executive Club last week, a member complained: "Yesterday, for the first time in my life, my wife asked me how to vote in the election." He paused. "And you know something? For the first time...
...Anxious for Approval. As a champion of fiscal sanity and free trade, Jacobsson's IMF frequently requires governments to reduce spending, limit credit expansion, drop trade barriers and raise taxes. Few nations willingly accede to such reforms, but the IMF can be tough. Before granting loans, it forced the Philippines to tighten credit and Egypt to devalue its pounds. It temporarily cut off credit to Turkey, Colombia and Brazil for failing to live up to its demands. Despite their balking, underdeveloped nations are anxious to get IMF's approval, aware that it opens the way for millions more...
...Chemical Engineer John T. Davies reports that six of his ten researchers left for the U.S. last year. One Glasgow University laboratory team emigrated en masse, and so did five senior aeronautical engineers from Hawker Siddeley's advanced-projects group. Says one Oxford don: "Usually people are so anxious to get to America that recruiters don't have to work very hard...