Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much-maligned James Michael Curley had this same ability to forge personal, emotional bonds with his aides and cohorts. Shy, anxious Bobby Kennedy had something else: his backers were certain that he alone could move to heal the racial, generational, and international crisis hobbling America. As one Boston female lawyer back from the funeral said Sunday. "He had more imagination, guts, and heart than the rest." According to his long-time adviser Adam Yarmolinsky, his constant refrain was "What can I do about...
...Kennedy had a good deal of trouble getting his dreams across. Most of the nation's newspapers seemed more anxious to catch his occasional slips, to dwell on his so-called "ruthlessness," than to explain--or even just to analyze--the thrust of his campaign. In their zeal to discuss Joe McCarthy and wiretapping, editorial writers somehow forgot that Bob Kennedy defended the right of Americans to send material aid to North Vietnam and fought bills to cut back the Supreme Court's landmark criminal procedure decisions. They refused to admit that the Bob Kennedy who relentlessly exposed the costs...
...course the possibility exists that I am here to precipitate some change at the university. I am willing to accept the latter as true, or rather, I am willing, even anxious, not to think about it any more. If you think too much on the second tier (think about why you are thinking what you think) you can be paralyzed...
...Convention and just before the Democratic Convention. The North Vietnamese don't like Richard Nixon but they like Lyndon Johnson even less; if there is progress in peace talks now, some of them suggest, they fear that Johnson will be drafted as the Democratic candidate, and they are anxious to keep that from happening...
...From time to time," said one anxious fellow, "I have the feeling that my head is about to burst open...