Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that teen-agers look for. Those that have such features usually serve liquor, which is forbidden to the under-21 crowd by law in 47 states* and by the stern disapproval of many parents in all 50 states. What is more, few nightspots that specialize in adult customers are anxious to cater to the teen-ager's meager budget...
...encompasses all of New York City, from Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx to the farms of Staten Island and east to the runways of Idlewild airport. All year long, every working day, its mobile crew zips around the city in an anxious effort to keep the weekly, hourlong show supplied with finished films. The city police usually cooperate closely, but the two detectives simply had not been told that Naked City would be in the neighborhood that...
...creative crisis and the moment comes in the life of a middle-aged painter (Kees Van Dyk) who is beginning to discover that success has problems as well as pleasures. To satisfy the public appetite for his work he paints too much, starts to repeat himself. Bored and anxious, he charges nervously about Manhattan, finds himself suddenly on a mysterious island in the silent center of the moiling metropolis...
Much of the impetus for liberalization comes from the Cabinet's younger ministers who are anxious to adjust the nation's anachronistic policies to those of the rest of Western Europe in order to cushion the shock when-and if-Spain wins associate membership in the Common Market...
...broad-winged aircraft looked as if it had been flattened against the white cliffs of Dover. The propeller sprouted out of its tail like a designer's afterthought. In the cabin, the pilot rode a first cousin to a bicycle, and he was pedaling furiously. A covey of anxious friends checked his progress...