Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anxious was the Supreme Court to make sure that its decision would not reach too far, it took the trouble to specify about limitations. "We are not holding," wrote Justice Hugo Black for the majority, "that every time a bus stops at a wholly independent roadside restaurant the act applies." But even this limited legal victory was gratifying to the N.A.A.C.P. Said a spokesman for the organization: "I assume it will mean an end to one more sector of embarrassment and second-class treatment for Negro travelers...
Khrushchev has made no secret of the fact that he is most anxious to meet new U.S. President John F. Kennedy...
...letter in the Nov. 26 Alumni Bulletin pointing out the disparity between Harvard's stand on recruiting by coaches and the policies of certain other Ivy schools closely reflects the College's official position. Dean Watson said yesterday, "Harvard is very anxious to have a certain uniformity in the Ivy Group with respect to the role of coaches...
...militant crusader of 22 has vanished in the resounding success of 47. Anxious to lose none of her enormous-and enormously variegated-syndication...
Raincoats Are Enough. Biggest market is Africa, where only a fraction of the population can afford new clothes, and where self-conscious new nations like Ghana are anxious to wipe out traditional tribal nudity. Ghana last year doubled its purchase of used clothes, spent some $1,680,000 on broni waawu, mostly from the U.S., and the All-Africa Women's League, the most militant no-nakedness national organization, distributed several thousand garments free. Morocco last year imported $1,000,000 in secondhand garments. In East Africa, the political and missionary propaganda on the importance of wearing clothes...