Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Macmillan's task was made no easier by the way things were going on the Continent last week. France, anxious to find markets for its burgeoning farm surpluses, abruptly demanded a common agricultural price and marketing system that would rule throughout the Common Market. To back their demand, the French threatened to veto any further industrial tariff reduction in the Common Market unless an agricultural agreement was reached...
...specifically "intellectual" endeavors became intermingled more thoroughly in her daily routine, the frightening gap between education and life might narrow a little. The resident families would provide her with encouraging examples of professional women who are also excellent wives and mothers and of what she is just as anxious to find, professional men who support their wives' careers with interest and understanding...
Meeting in Washington last week, the Republican National Committee selected a new national chairman: New York's tough, energetic Representative William E. Miller, 47. He succeeds Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton, who was anxious to turn his attention to the problem of getting re-elected back home...
...Haven. Conn. In his three best-known works. Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, The Child from Five to Ten and Youth: The Years from Ten to Sixteen, which were translated into 25 languages, Gesell explained behavior patterns from cradle through adolescence to generations of anxious parents. His basic point: "The developing child is the most complicated of all bundles of atoms. It takes him a long time to grow up, and he must do his own growing...
...Gutter. Cancer is a picaresque-didactic novel whose hero is a monster of eloquence, a high-spirited low character-Henry Miller. At one level it is a long locker-room anecdote told with unquenchable gusto by a born raconteur, anxious that all should share the grandeurs and miseries of being down and out in Europe, among the Lost Generation...