Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anxious...
...moral force. For most of its people, the city has ceased functioning. All it does is pick up garbage. How can you identify with a garbage truck?" The 6-ft. 3-in. former football and track star impressed audiences with his expertise on urban affairs. To whites anxious about the city's racial divisions, Bradley declared: "Let me say to those of you who are uneasy-that black, brown or white or yellow or gray or magenta, I happen to be the most qualified candidate running...
There is some hope of flexibility by the Soviets and the French, whose position is close to Moscow's. The Russians are anxious to head off a new outbreak of fighting because the Arabs would likely lose the new weaponry that the Soviets gave them after their last defeat. As for De Gaulle, he lately has sounded just a shade conciliatory. "The Israelis think I am an enemy," he told President Nixon in Paris. "This is untrue. I carry their hopes for peace and security in my heart." The British, who want the Suez open again, usually back...
...anxious to be helpful, to do what the great majority of the students would like," Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, said. "But we have rooming problems in Lowell. The idea of going through assignments again for next fall makes me feel very tired...
Ploy No. 3: "I always knew you didn't like me." Student movements are anxious that the Establishment (i.e., Father) behave badly. Indispensable to the morale of student movements is an "episode of repression." Nothing develops better "generational solidarity" among the students than official rejection, particularly when there is violence...