Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readers who spotted errors, or thought they did, seemed more than anxious to point them out. When the magazine seated Charles de Gaulle in a Louis XV rather than a Louis XVI chair, we heard about it. And we were sternly reprimanded for ascribing a brief quote to Aeschylus. (The author was Hesiod...
...Moynihan, his urban affairs adviser, and Henry Kissinger, his national security specialist, do their brainwork in basement enclaves. In his most unusual departure from tradition, Nixon has given Spiro Agnew an office in the White House, only 50 paces from his own. President-watchers concluded uncharitably that Nixon is anxious to keep his Vice President on a short leash...
...NIGHT before this Fall's Yale game--in which only one black player suited up for Harvard--the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students issued an anxious statement. The Rosovsky Committee, which Dean Ford had appointed last April to look into the role of Afro-American studies here, was winding up its investigations, and reports that had filtered out of the committee were not encouraging...
...have corresponded with Senator Hatfield several times in the last few weeks about the Volunteer Army Bill that he intends to introduce in the current session of Congress. The reasons why I support this bill are myriad. I am particularly anxious to eliminate the need for young men to choose careers that fit the bureaucratic criteria of being in the "national interest" in order to obtain a deferment; for when our government gains this much control over our lives, then we are losing the battle for freedom at home as well as abroad...
...Asian merchants in their midst. Since the majority hold British rather than local passports, black leaders in East Africa adamantly insist that the British should accept them. Britain has reacted against immigration-and its attendant demands on social services-with a new quota system, and Callaghan was hardly anxious to provoke another storm of Powellite racial tension by promising to stretch quotas...