Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Banking and Currency Committee, Texas Democrat Wright Patman has made a career of jousting with U.S. bankers. Last week he thrust at their Swiss counterparts, whose secret subterranean vaults have long been the world's principal haven for nervous money-accounts whose owners are not anxious to admit ownership. After two days of public hearings, Patman called for legislation making it illegal for Americans to deal with any foreign bank that does not allow inspection of its records by U.S. regulatory agencies...
...ANXIOUS TO WITNESS A CONVERSATION BETWEEN CHRIST AND ADOLF HITLER, BUT AS YET THEY APPEAR EQUALLY ANXIOUS TO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER...
Dean Glimp looked extremely anxious standing in front of the crowd of students and reporters. He was stating that students would not be allowed at a Faculty meeting. It was a rule of the Faculty that their meetings were closed. Someone asked if an exception to the rule might not be made in this case. The dean said, "it was traditional that Faculty meetings were closed." Someone asked if the dean wasn't embarrassed "at the vacuousness of the arguments he had to offer for closed Faculty meetings." Dean Glimp seemed to flinch at this, as if struck. He smiled...
...Army match this Saturday appears to be Harvard's first real test this year. Army will be trying to avenge a 7-2 defeat by the Crimson last year. Coach Jack Barnaby is well aware that the Cadets are both strong and anxious to get a crack at the defending national champs...
...important, and a smaller one may drive them away. At the first meeting, inform your overflow crowd that it will be possible to admit only a small fraction thereof; then ask each applicant to submit a brief autobiography plus a 25-word statement on the subject "Why I'm anxious to take this course...