Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might be "a final mistake that may well lead to the end of the good life that you and I have known in this country." Added Progressive Party Leader Jan Steytler: "This republic will make us an outcast people." Before the polls opened on election morning, long rows of anxious voters stood impatiently to cast their ballots. At first the overwhelmingly anti-government vote from the big cities indicated that the republic might be defeated. But the tide turned in favor of Verwoerd when the platteland returns began arriving. By nightfall, the Nats had a 74,000 majority, giving them...
...Democrats on charges of treason or other misdeeds, Bayar finished breakfast, got permission to take a bath. The guard outside the door heard strangling noises, rushed in to find Bayar slumped in the tub, his belt cinched tight around his neck. The old man was revived. "I was not anxious to be saved," said Bayar wearily...
...commercial aquarium-stock store, purchased some rare breeds of fish (imported to await his arrival) and arranged for them to be aboard his chartered plane when he flies back fo Tokyo this week. It was not on the crown prince's official schedule, but he was anxious to say hello to an old acquaintance, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, who lives in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, only two floors away from the suite assigned to the royal couple...
...University is also anxious to avoid any arrangement which would cause a constant lines of buses on Massachusetts Avenue, thus blocking one of the main entrances to the Yard...
Discussing his reception in Leningrad, Slive declared that he found the officials at the University "most enthusiastic" about the exchange program and anxious for information on recent art discoveries outside Russia. The audiences at his own lectures, he pointed out, were composed mostly of his colleagues rather than of students. The lectures were delivered in English and translated simultaneously into Russian...