Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...match for Eisenhower's enthusiastic reception in India, but it did spread the notion-in a region worried by Red China's militancy-that one Communist nation is as peace-loving as can be. Red China seemed to be a subject that host and guest were anxious to avoid. When Sukarno wondered aloud why Asians would not be present at the summit. Khrushchev, obviously uneasy that his curmudgeon ally, Red China, might be the one to demand a seat most loudly, remarked: "Maybe the time is not yet ripe to arrange a more representative summit conference...
This week the new tranquilizer goes on sale (by prescription only) throughout the U.S., with encouraging evidence that it will have the same effect on 70% or more of anxious, tense and hostile humans as it has on dingoes. Trade-named Librium by New Jersey's Roche Laboratories, it is technically methamino-diazepoxide, a synthetic chemical unrelated to previous ataractic drugs. Finding the right dose for individual patients is admittedly tricky. But the manufacturers claim that when this is achieved, Librium comes close to producing pure relief from strain without drowsiness or dulling of mental processes. Also claimed: unusual...
Moreover, the fortnight delay in House debate and the predictable foot-dragging of Southern Senators would push Senate crucial votes into early spring, when Johnson's rivals for the Democratic nomination - Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey - would be most anxious to be off campaigning in Wisconsin for the April 5 primary. But what good Democratic candidate would risk missing a civil rights debate, even if it starred Lyndon Johnson...
...Last week the deserted colony was put up for public auction. It was one of a number of "chattels"-a dry canal, 15 coast guard stations, five silos, two restaurants, two sand dunes, 43 prisons-that the French government is eager to get rid of, and in this case, anxious to forget...
Just about every U.S. company extends credit-as liberal as possible-to its U.S. customers. But overseas, the same companies often demand cash on the barrelhead. Nor does the U.S. businessman research his foreign market as he does at home; he is nowhere near as anxious to serve each customer's special needs, is reluctant to modify his product to fit export needs...