Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then turned to the old Chancellor with the ultimate and justified compliment. Seldom in a lifetime, said Rusk, did one have the opportunity to meet such a "historic personality." Next morning, in Adenauer's spacious office by the Rhine, the pair got down to business. Der Alte was anxious to present his new plan to immediately draw up a contract for Europe's political unity. Let those countries sign that wished to do so; the rest could come in later. Adenauer feared that unity might be delayed in definitely if everyone waited on Britain's entry into...
...lean to the time he goes into his delivery,'' says Wills, "I've taken two extra steps." He wastes no time trying to taunt a pitcher-"I don't wanna be a jumpin' jack. If I rile those pitchers, they'll be more anxious to get me than the batter." Even so. says Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson, Wills's mere presence on base "can raise the batting average of the man behind him in the line-up by 20 or 30 points." Explosion of Dust. It can also be considerably disconcerting...
Rodriquez, anxious to expand his family's 61-year-old shipyard, bought Lobau out and has kept him at work in Messina ever since...
...British Poetaster Rowland Howard Wholesale street-corner thefts of St. Paul newspapers approached 1,500 copies every Sunday; every petty crook in town seemed anxious to make a killing by running the contraband across the Mississippi into Minneapolis. In Minneapolis itself, Mrs. Florence Kennan's butcher, as a favor to a good customer, slipped her a hot copy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press-wrapped to resemble a leg of lamb. Two people fainted in the crush of eager newspaper buyers around a downtown Minneapolis newsstand. Hyman P. Shinder's kiosk, the biggest in town, collected a crowd...
...survival brought the two chains together, in the outside chance that the weld-awkwardly dubbed the News-Call Bulletin-might cure a combined deficit approaching $2,000,000 a year. What Hearst really wanted was to take over its smaller rival; the union was approved only after Scripps-Howard, anxious to hang onto its only West Coast newspaper (its next westernmost outlet is the Albuquerque, N.M. Tribune), paid $500,000 for the right to run the news side of the joint operation, leaving business affairs to Hearst...