Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wouldn't mind," said the anxious housewife at the Atami station of Japan's National Railways, "except they were a New Year's gift from my husband and he will kill me if he finds they are missing. He will not believe what happened.'' An understanding man, the stationmaster wired ahead to Nagoya. Sure enough, in one of the empty cars, there were the black lace panties that the woman had been wearing until she was caught in the rib-crunching free-for-all involved in getting on and off a train in Japan...
Last week he lingered in Australia, so in demand that he was becoming something of a local celebrity. The only man anxious to see him ship out for his next scheduled port of call, New Zealand, was his agent, who tore up their contract in despair over the low fees Buddy was asking. But then pressagents and wandering minstrels belong to different worlds...
Nearly 90% of the 1,200,000 Europeans who once tended Algeria's vineyards and ran its businesses have fled (along with some 200,000 job-seeking Moslems), but officials now are anxious to lure back teachers, technicians and administrators to help straighten out the mess...
Most freelancers are made anxious by a market that is steadily wasting away. A dozen magazines, among them Collier's, American Magazine, Coronet and Woman's Home Companion, have folded in the past seven years. Last month the Saturday Evening Post, which used to receive 100,000 unsolicited manuscripts a year, announced that henceforth all of them would be sent back unopened. Havemann's reputation insulates him from such vicissitudes. He does not have to solicit magazines; they solicit him. Of every four articles he writes, three stem from some editor's suggestion...
...Army is less anxious for change at college level: R.O.T.C. annually supplies about 90% of its new second lieutenants (17,500 needed this year). The Army goes along with the Air Force two-year plan, but in its own way. It will probably cut weekly classes to four hours rather than three, and not offer scholarships unless recruits fail to appear. How Congress will react to all this is anyone's guess. But no one doubts that a cheaper, more efficient R.O.T.C. must be devised...