Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anxious to avoid such a fate, the third suspect meekly surrendered-to New York Daily News Photographer Gary Kagan (who knew the suspect's family...
Little League baseball is tough enough on the psyche of anxious parents who are determined that their kids win-or else...
...France could at least "tear an arm" off an aggressor. He announced also that NATO will not get back the two NATO-committed French divisions that were diverted to Algeria. Explained De Gaulle: "It is absolutely necessary to have our army more closely knit into the nation." ADENAUER, though anxious at almost any price to preserve Franco-German amity, is mistrustful of De Gaulle's nuclear ambitions and resents his carping...
Students are here to develop themselves, personally, morally and intellectually. It is the student's intellectual development--or enrichment, or expansion--that is the professor's special province, though in this highly integrated community the other provinces may, hopefully and charitably, be his as well. We are not anxious merely to fill up our students' minds, but to train and discipline their minds: to teach them how to think; to train, them to know and judge their own thought and to know why they think it, and whether they should; to persuade them to resist themselves and go beyond themselves...
...landlord generally disapproves of livestock (animals eat too much) and is anxious to hold down food crops because such industrial crops as sugar and cotton bring him a higher profit. A state such as Rio Grande do Norte therefore imports 70% of its food from southern Brazil at inflationary prices that the peasant (average annual income: $23) cannot afford...