Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wirtz, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman and Poverty Boss Sargent Shriver are said to be anxious to leave the Government or to change jobs-though all may temporarily stay put now that Mc-Namara is leaving, simply to prevent the kind of revolving-door exodus that could hurt Lyndon Johnson in an election year...
...parts: angry feelings and angry acts. Each part has to be handled differently. Feelings have to be identified and expressed; acts may have to be limited and redirected." How and when to set limits depends partly on the child's age. Nothing makes a small child more anxious than being asked if he "wants" to do this or that and then being given reasons as to why he should. Dr. Spock, sometimes accused of permissiveness, firmly advises, "Just do what's necessary." In short: time for bed, lights out, no chatter...
...longer defend the price of gold -and thus the dollar-hardly seems near. Although the U.S.'s gold supply has fallen far from its $24.6 billion peak of 1949, the nation's gold pool partners and its creditors throughout the world are not at all anxious to bring down the present monetary system by drawing out the remaining U.S. supply. And Congress, as Moore urges, may soon expand the available supply by ending the requirement that enough gold be kept frozen to back a minimum 25% of the value of currency in circulation. That would free...
...dead issue now," he added, "no one seems anxious to do anything about...
...Congress that the United States would vote for an invitation to the Vietcong to appear before a meeting of the Security Council. Goldberg's speech was billed as yet another major U.S. diplomatic concession to the enemy. It sought to prove once again that the United States is truly anxious to reach a peace settlement, and that its concerted efforts have failed only because of the intransigence of the North Vietnamese and their N.L.F. allies...