Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously sensitive on the point, and anxious to squelch the talk of Soviet vulnerability. Tass last week produced new evidence it said came from Powers himself. "Apparently my father misunderstood my answers when I was on trial," Tass quoted Powers as writing in a letter to the New York Times. "I am sure my plane did not blow up by itself. All the indicators that register the performance of the engine were in good order until the very moment of the explosion which I felt and heard . . . I was at the maximum height when the explosion occurred...
Last week, anxious to resume his work and stung by whispers that he should not have fled, Ambrose Reeves flew back to South Africa, declaring, "I am back for good!" But he had not counted on Premier Hendrik Verwoerd's determination to put down critics he found troublesome, even if the critic was a bishop. Forty-two hours after Bishop Reeves landed, detectives, led by the chief of the special branch, showed up at his simple room in the Priory of St. Benedict and handed him a deportation order signed by the Minister of Interior. He was given half...
...meter men's relay, California's Ray Norton, 22, set out to atone for his humiliating, sixth-place finishes in both the 100 and 200 meters. Running the second leg, Norton was so anxious to get going that he sprinted right out of the exchange zone before he got the baton. Duke's Dave Sime, the U.S. anchorman, later finished first by a flicker, but Norton's foul disqualified the U.S. team, gave the gold medal to Germany. "I'm sick up to here with running," said Norton, pre-Olympic favorite to win three gold...
...eager customers beating a pathway to his door, or corporations trying to hire him. Last week in Los Angeles, as in many another U.S. city, a task force set up by the Chamber of Commerce was out hunting down new inventions, forearmed with a list of manufacturers anxious for new products. This week You and Your Big Ideas, a television show that invites little-known inventors to demonstrate their wares and provides a panel of experts to evaluate them, begins its new season...
Status Eking. Author Ham laces the willful charm of his love story with a carbonated commentary on suburbanitis, with its worship of errant gadgets (" 'Patent applied for' but never to be granted, I trust"), anxious affluence ("We had enough trouble living 10% over our income"), status eking ("If the price was down around $17,000-in Darien that meant one room and an outhouse on a twenty-by-twenty lot under the New Haven Railroad tracks") and nostalgic concupiscence ("There hasn't been an organized wife-swapping party in Darien or New Canaan for five years...