Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is nothing small time about Butler basketball. More than 7,300 fanatic Hoosiers fight their way into the Butler gym for each home game, anxious to see the local heroes ambush visitors from the Big Ten and Missouri Valley Conference. They are rarely disappointed. In Tony Hinkle's 33 years as head coach. Butler has won one national college championship, gone to the National Invitation Tournament twice, won 447 games against 286 losses. "There is nothing I fear more than going to Indianapolis to play Hinkle." says Notre Dame Coach John Jordan, whose tough Irish squad took...
...high level of mass consumption. This man is extremely difficult to describe as one who finds his ultimate concern in death, let alone God. Death tends to become a technical matter, representing more the struggle between the physician and the mortician than between life and death. He is anxious, disquieted and often desperate, but his anxieties seem oriented around his professional and social status, his sexual relations, and the dislocations of a revolutionary world...
...Loathing. Houseman's other job is artistic director of Los Angeles' three-year-old Theater Group, which, helped by a Ford Foundation grant and run by the adult education branch of U.C.L.A., presents first-rate stage productions, drawing from an eager pool of movie and television actors. Anxious to get away from the flabby, fragmented routine of working on motion pictures or taping TV shows, the actors are willing to work for Equity minimum just to submit themselves to the sterner discipline of the stage. Robert Ryan starred in the group's Sodom and Gomorrah, Nina Foch...
Weather does not always favor the celestial navigator. Far up where modern jets fly (up to 40,000 ft.), heavy clouds are rare, and the brighter celestial bodies generally shine through thin, high cirrus clouds. But at twilight, when the sun drops just under the horizon, there are anxious stretches when a navigator can spot no stars against a bright sky lit from below. If he is heading eastward, he soon flies into darkness, and his guiding stars reappear. But fast jets almost keep pace with the sun, and on westward flights the baffling, starless twilight may last for several...
Monro said last week that the Faculty is anxious to reveal its final decision. At its Feb. 5 meeting the Faculty Committee is expected to decide not only about NCAA participation, but also about accepting a probable bid to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament, to be held Mar. 6, one week before the NCAA...