Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laos, Cuba, Africa continue to boil. Mobs riot in Seoul, Black Muslims rally in Chicago, TV is bad, even baseball declines. Everywhere the have-nots are vocal about their anxiety to have, and the haves are doubly anxious to hang on to what they have. Is it any wonder that the comfortable U.S. is afflicted by fear of the unknown future...
...organize an objective debate, and which are filled with invective and insults. And then, as the United Nations becomes a, scene of disturbance, confusion and division, it acquires the ambition to intervene in all kinds of matters. This is especially true of its officers. It is anxious to assert itself -even by force of arms-as it did in the Congo. The result is that it carries to the local scene its global incoherence, the personal conceptions of its various agents and the individual partiality of each of the states, which send their contingents with their own orders-send them...
...when he was asked whether the U.S. was barred from giving aid or arms to anti-Castro elements in the U.S. by the terms of the Organization of American States treaty, Kennedy was less precise: "Well, there is a revolutionary committee here which is, of course, extremely anxious to see a change in government in that country. I'm sure that they have, they're very interested in associating with all those who feel the same...
...anxious atomic age, the normal human array of senses is no longer enough. Radiation from nuclear reactors, radioisotopes. particle accelerators, bomb-test fallout, X-ray machines and countless other sources cannot be seen, felt, heard, smelled or tasted. And radiation from any of these sources can fatally fry a man before he has the faintest notion that anything is amiss...
...school said, "By Ivy league standards, Denver is a third-rate institution, especially weak in the humanities and liberal arts, and with practically no endowments." He did comment, however, that its underpaid Faculty resents favoritism toward athletes: "The athletes don't slide through this place. The Faculty is not anxious to do any favors or make any exceptions for campus heroes...