Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, anxious to see a thorough job of reporting done on his first year in office, talked things over with White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey, who has been covering him since the wintry campaigning days...
...opera at Milan's La Scala last week was Verdi's Battle of Legnano, and the principals bore glittering reputations -Soprano Antonietta Stella, Tenor Franco Corelli. But as anxious to please as either of them were the two men posted on either side of the first gallery (the fifth tier). Antonio Carrara, 33, and Carmelo Alabisio, 76, can lay claim to being opera's most successful dispensers of professional applause...
...With the move toward church unity, everybody is becoming aware of the value of symbols and order in worship. People are looking for unity and order in religion, which, .because of these anxious times, they cannot find elsewhere in life...
...Couple of Things." Anxious to get the house in order, a group of younger Amex members tried to oust the McCormick administration. Their revolt was beaten back, but it spurred the exchange to appoint an investigating committee of Wall Street leaders to do what it could to clean things up before the SEC moved in with public disclosure. Turning its attention to McCormick, the investigating committee soon picked up what its tightlipped members described only as "a couple of things...
Apparently anxious not to run afoul of the SEC, Kirby denied that he was planning a proxy war, said that he would be content simply to fight the Murchisons' I.D.S. scheme in the courts. But many Wall Streeters believed it was only a matter of time till the bell rang for Round 2 of the great Alleghany fight...