Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other people, the driver is unbelieving. He tells his passenger that Negroes have remained free from the scourge of Puritanism that has deadened the senses of the rest of the country. Griffin tries to explain how it is to live in a ghetto--that Negro parents are as anxious about their children as white parents, or more so; but that Negroes are caught in a vicious trap where no act is private, and where the only escape is violent pleasure. But the driver remains unconvinced. He cannot be persuaded that his passenger could in any way resemble himself. Apparently...
...beginning of the rush was due to eager-beaver freshman class anxious to get into their studies," James says. He notes that additional services, such as the records and listening facilities for Music 1, are also partly responsible for the crowded condition of Lamont...
...Chinese and Russian scientists at a secret meeting in Manchuria, and when the hydrangea-lovers reappear moments later, the chairwoman is no longer speaking on flowers. She is asking the head of the American patrol to murder two of his men. "Yes ma'am," he replies politely, and obviously anxious to please his hostesses, he strangles one (with a scarf thoughtfully provided by a woman in the audience) and shoots the other in the forehead. The sweet ladies of the garden club applaud his performance enthusiastically...
...true Common Market airline. Britain's BOAC and BEA have announced that they will not join even if Britain enters the Com mon Market. The Netherlands' KLM, which walked out of the negotiations three years ago in disgust over its allotted share of the revenues, now seems anxious to jump back in-but on its own terms. But even if only the present four lines join Air Union, their reduced costs will give them an advantage in competition with U.S. overseas airlines. This argument is sure to be made when Pan Am and TWA press the Kennedy Administration...
Mattel gives much of the credit to saturation selling on TV. In 1955, Mattel, still a fledgling firm with annual sales of only $6,000,000, decided to move into toy burp guns. Anxious to give the new product a big advertising sendoff, the Handlers nervously agreed to sponsor Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club show for a year, at a cost of $500,000. Recalls Ralph Carson of Los Angeles' Carson-Roberts ad agency, which handles the Mattel account: "We were on the air six times and nothing happened. Then the Mattel people came back from...