Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October 1 the Panzer divisions rolled into the Czech Sudation land. Anxious to see for himself a continent on the brink of war, Kennedy received permission to spend the Spring term in Europe. Staying at American embassies, he chatted with politicians and citizens in Poland, Russia, Palestine, Turkey, the Balkans, Berlin, and Paris...
Billing Dreams as the third part of a trilogy indeed misleads the anxious afficionado. True, the cast and the subject imply some continuity from the above-mentioned pair; but the serio-comic has become too serious, and as a result, Dreams drags...
...Gold fever!" cried the London Daily Express. For a change, the fever-pitched Express was not exaggerating. In a stampede of investors and speculators anxious to exchange U.S. dollars for bullion, gold prices took off last week on their most spectacular rise since London's gold exchange reopened in 1954. Starting at just over $35.25 an ounce (about the same as the U.S. price of $35 an ounce, with transportation and insurance added), gold prices broke free of their old ceiling at week's beginning, jumped to $35.65 for the biggest one-day advance in the exchange...
Doggy Details. First in the dock was ex-President Bayar, 77, still haggard from his suicide attempt last month. Bayar, onetime comrade-in-arms of the late great Kemal Ataturk, was charged with treason for ruling dictatorially in violation of the Turkish constitution. But the army regime was first anxious to destroy whatever prestige Bayar still has, and it began with an accusation astonishingly petty. On a state visit to Afghanistan, Bayar had received an Afghan hound as a present from the King. He brought it back to Turkey and put it into the Ankara zoo. Subsequently, says the prosecution...
...MacDonald had a farm, 175 acres or so, where he and his two sons raised corn and hogs. His income had plummeted during the Eisenhower administration and he was anxious to examine the initial statements of the Nixon and Kennedy farm policies. Then, instead of voting on election night, he walked down to the Grange Hall to mope quietly with the rest of his friends...