Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate campaign Jack called out the clan. Bobby was a meticulous campaign manager, crisscrossing Massachusetts like an anxious welterweight, head down, looking up through bushy eyebrows with a baleful stare. State Senator John Powers asked Joe Kennedy for his wife's services as a campaigner. "But she's a grandmother," he protested. "Yes, but she's beautiful, and she's the mother of a Congressman, and we need her," was the reply. Rose went to work, with Eunice, Pat and Jean, at the famous Boston tea parties, and the Clan Kennedy smashed Cabot Lodge and turned...
...incident at the Polo Grounds, I have been assured that the people there were, in overwhelming majority, anxious to welcome me as a representative of a nation with which they wished to cooperate and have friendly relations...
...about $600,000 annually from many international sources. It has more autonomy than most other higher-educational institutions in the Middle East. Though the Minister of Education has a voice in financial matters, the president and his trustees make the policies. Turkey's recent military coup caused some anxious moments, and Burdell expects that he will have to justify some of the schemes decided upon during the Menderes regime. "We can only go as fast as the new government permits us to go. But we may actually emerge a more solid institution...
...Despite last week's lull, the trials of Japanese democracy were far from over. Instead of uniting in the face of crisis, the eight factions that make up the Liberal Democratic Party were engaged in savage infighting over who was to succeed Kishi. Japan's big businessmen, anxious to get the country back to normal, were throwing their weight behind Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda, 61, the tough-minded economist who had helped the U.S. occupation's Economic Adviser (and Detroit banker) Joseph Dodge lick Japan's postwar inflation. The Socialists hinted that they might offer parliamentary...
SHADOW ON THE WATERS, by Jack Thomas Leahy (241 pp. Knopf; $4), recalls that, as the world's last frontiers recede, so does the myth of the noble savage. People who are called savage are all too anxious to become civilized: people who are civilized have shown that the sav age left in them is anything but noble. In his first novel, the author seeks to restore the old image and picks the Northwest Indians as his noble savages; they prove too pathetic to offer an alternative to civilization, only a mild reproach...