Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skripov did not know was that Miss X had been working for Australian intelligence all along, and she simply turned the parcel over to government agents. Inside they found coded transmission timetables for a Soviet radio station, along with a small, high-speed radio message sender. After waiting two anxious months for Miss X to carry out her task, Skripov last week learned what had gone wrong. The Australian government sent a note to the embassy ordering him out of the country in seven days for having made "elaborate preparations for espionage." Australian officials would not say what secrets Skripov...
Indonesia knows that a pro-Western, anti-Communist federation would put a serious crimp in Sukarno's ambition to absorb oil-rich Brunei and its two neighbors. He also is anxious as usual for an issue to deflect mounting public criticism over Indonesia's growing economic crisis. Fearing that Sukarno is itching to start something, Malaya's Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman appealed to London for reinforcements. The British obligingly put 2,000 crack troops on a 72-hour alert to reinforce its Southeast Asia forces, because of "the possibility of outside interference...
...easiest way to obtain bee venom is to get stung. But the method is plainly neither pleasant nor practical. Scientists anxious to gather the poison usually settle for a more cautious approach. They collect live insects, grab them one at a time with a pair of tweezers, then deftly slice out the venom sac; or else they persuade the stinging insects to discharge their poison through a rubber membrane...
Bettelheim touched briefly on the problems created by the fact that men and women are now, in the post-Victorian period, highly conscious of their sexual relationships. "Each is terribly anxious to give the other complete satisfaction," Bettelheim said. "If the woman does not reach this goal, she worries that she is frigid; the man fears that he is not masculine enough for her to enjoy...
...white man to approach the Negro with no consciousness of color is, I believe, a great mistake. For this is an invitation, to the white man to avoid the conflicts of the racial problem altogether--an invitation which he has shown himself quite anxious to accept. The white man would very much like to believe your statement that the so-called Negro Problem has nothing to do with color. But in fact it has everything to do with color, and he cannot escape this fact. His real problem, however, is that he sees in terms of black or white, instead...