Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philippines last September. Elpidio Valencia, then Health Secretary, correctly identified it as "choleriform enteritis caused by a vibrio (bacillus) called El Tor," which he less soundly defined as a "mild" form of cholera. A presidential campaign was in progress, and the regime of President Carlos P. Garcia was anxious to downplay any threat to the nation's health...
...that it discourages purchases by small investors. Meanwhile, the stock of Ford's archrival, General Motors, has been selling briskly at around $55. Since the automakers reckon that a shareholder is likely to buy the car made by the company in which he has invested, Ford was understandably anxious to widen ownership of its stock...
...pointer by Steve Spahn, Dartmouth's hustling but over-anxious guard, reduced the varsity's lead to four at 67 to 63, but shortly thereafter Barton and Indian captain Bill Shanahan fouled...
...School (or the Admissions Office) the height problem will remain. But the other problems show signs of eventual solution, and that could cause some of the teams at the top of the league, including representatives of a small liberal arts school in New Haven, a few anxious moments...
...Anxious to rescue history from simple moral judgments, historians have been restoring the reputations of many a traditional villain. Richard III, Metternich, Aaron Burr have all been readmitted to civilized society and admired for their "realism." But no one (outside Germany) seemed to have thought of scrubbing up Hitler-until now. In The Origins of the Second World War, Oxford Historian A.J.P. Taylor finds excuses for Hitler and reasons to blame nearly everybody else...