Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago determined to shake hands and say, "Hi there, in farmhouses, general stores, bars and windy main streets in all 67 South Dakota counties. His sprightly wife Eleanor added her weight-all 91 lbs. of it. Though McGovern has made peace, of sorts, with Hubert Humphrey, he is not anxious to identify himself as a Democrat, his billboards identify him simply as a "Courageous Prairie Statesman." With a stake of nearly $100,000, two-thirds of it raised at a single fund-raising dinner featuring Ted Kennedy. McGovern is investing almost a third of his budget in a door...
Bruce doesn't feel that rock will change greatly. "Rock depends very much on certain cliches. They're the essential vocabulary of rock. When-ever you add something new like, for instance, electronic sounds, you always risk destroying it." He is also anxious about whether he will be recognized apart from his Cream identity. "I had a terrible hassle just trying to find a company willing to produce my new disc." Meanwhile, Bruce continues his struggle to increase his musical powers by writing inventions in the style of Bach. "Two part inventions are hard, but it's the three-part...
Until the shooting last week, most students seemed almost as anxious as their government not to spoil the scene for the Olympic summer games that open this week. The government, after crushing the demonstrators, began rounding up student leaders. On the day following la noche triste, the International Olympic Committee decided that the games will go on, since "we have been assured that nothing will interfere with the peaceful entry of the Olympic flame, nor with the competitions that follow." Considering the students' renewed anger, that could turn out to be a hollow guarantee...
...much uncertainty as it has ever known in its 178-year history. Justice Abe Fortas will sit to the right of his colleagues, and not in the chair that he had hoped to occupy; the seat in the center is still filled by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who is anxious to end his Supreme Court career. Three other Justices besides Warren are old enough to be thinking about retirement: Hugo Black, 82, John Marshall Harlan, 69, and William O. Douglas, 69. Lawyers who are preparing their cases for the court as it is now constituted may find themselves presenting those...
Behind fifth man Keith Colburn, there will be a happy scramble for scoring slots. Junior John Heyburn is anxious to reestablish himself in the top group, and sophomore mile star Jon Enscoe has been particularly impressive in track workouts this past week...