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Word: anxious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them, lanky, pink, ditherish Miss Quested (Anne Meacham), who has come from England to be married; and Mrs. Moore (Gladys Cooper), the mother of Miss Quested's fiancé. They meet Dr. Aziz (expertly played by Zia Mohyeddin), a Moslem who is young, charming, overemotional, awkward and desperately anxious to please. His position, India's and Britain's are dryly summed up by two incidents. Before the ladies come, Fielding cannot find his back collar stud, and the puppyish Aziz plucks out his own and forces the principal to take it. Later Miss Quested's fianc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bridge Party | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

With hardly an anxious moment, the varsity hockey team chopped down a skimpy Brown sextet 5 to 1 last night at Watson Rink and moved into a tie for second place in the Ivy League...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Hockey Team Buries Brown, Moves Into Second Place Tie | 2/8/1962 | See Source »

...true, however, that the Magics gave the varsity an anxious one or two minutes at the beginning of the game. Defensman Dave Johnston had to make the period's first stop with his stomach at 0:35. And the Crimson didn't score until 10:35 when Gene Kinasewich drilled in his own rebound off goalie Tom Apprille's pads...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Varsity Hockey Beats B.U., 6-1 | 2/6/1962 | See Source »

...that McCone has made his comedy debut, he seems anxious to play a great tragic role on the cold war stage. Already he has opposed the President's suggestion for number two man in the Intelligence Unit, and the alacrity with which his demands for C.I.A. autonomy have been accepted, indicates that the criticism of last April was aimed at diverting attention from the basic causes of the Cuban policy debacle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Central Intelligence Absurdity | 2/5/1962 | See Source »

Swifty worked as an agent for M.C.A. for ten years before serving in the Army Air Corps as an administrative officer during World War II. Hearing that the corps was anxious to produce a Broadway show to rival This Is the Army, he offered unsolicited help, announcing to the top brass that he could get Moss Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, etc.-none of whom he knew. Then he confronted Hart in Manhattan's Hotel Plaza and told him that General Hap Arnold needed his services. Then he told Arnold to wire Hart. The result was Winged Victory-eventually worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Swifty the Great | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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