Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move, Kong Le had virtually cut the country in two and was poised to strike either south toward Vientiane or north toward the royal capital of Luangprabang. But he was outmanned by the larger government garrisons and seemed content to fight minor patrol actions. Nor did General Phoumi seem anxious for a battle to the death...
...Congressmen-elect drew lots for new office suites (Pennsylvania Republican Dick Schweiker, drawing Lot No. 55, found there was no more space available, will have to wait until an office can be found). The quest for jobs on the Hill was becoming frantic. Surprisingly, many of the most anxious Capitol job seekers were Democrats: with 45 new Republican representatives, and only 18 new Democrats, a few secretaries of outgoing Democratic Congressmen were wringing their hands. The U.S. Employment Service's Capitol Hill office reported that, out of some 400 applications received, fewer than 40 persons had been placed...
Reaching the hut, each Sikh dropped a coin or a bill in an offering box, then peered through a tiny glass window. Inside, on a hard mattress, lay Sant Fateh Singh, 50-year-old Sikh holy man. While doctors and disciples stood anxious watch, Sant Fateh Singh was carrying on a hunger strike. Its aim: to compel the Indian government to create a separate linguistic state in the Punjab, traditional home of the Sikhs...
...India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, keeping in anxious touch with developments while making a tour of Uttar Pradesh, the fast-and the whole Sikh effort-presented a number of galling ironies. In the first place, fasting as a political weapon was developed by Nehru's nationalist mentor, Mahatma Gandhi, but is now regarded by New Delhi as in bad taste. Secondly, to justify keeping Master Tara Singh in jail without proof of crime, Nehru a month ago had to insist on a further extension of the same Preventive-Detention Act passed originally under British rule to allow...
...country. A chosen few Brazilians went to Europe and returned bearing unofficial statements. "Quadros will follow an independent policy in international relations," ventured one such in formant. "He will try to maintain good relations with all countries that want to do business with us." Others reported that Quadros was anxious to trade with Red China, that he wanted to meet with Nas ser and Nehru, that he was not (as some feared) going to scrap Brasilia as the capital, that he was studying the administration of Europe, that he was studying Brazilian problems, that he would return in mid-January...