Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some political people. And all of these hopes, dreams and idealistic people going around are misleading and confusing and weakening our position. We have never said they are unpatriotic, although they say some pretty ugly things about us. People who live in glass houses shouldn't be too anxious to throw stones." Yet he was able to joke about his critics. "If I have done a good job of anything since I have been President," he smiled, "it is to insure that there are plenty of dissenters...
...years since the war, the policy has continued. The DOD agencies--the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research--have been "anxious to support research that had as little connection as possible with any governmental activity," Gentry said...
...Stevenson gets his boys from Long Island, with a handful from New Jersey and New England. This supplies him with players receptive to his equally aggressive coaching technique. The end result of this process is a strong. Well-conditioned team that is continually as rough, as hustling, and as anxious to win as any in the East...
...apparent to him that a majority of the court was going to strike down the separate-but-equal rule, which had been challenged in Kansas and three other states. Well aware that an order to desegregate all public schools would be a nation-shaking step, the new Chief was anxious that the decision be unanimous, without any separate concurrences. He set out to write that single opinion himself, and after many conferences, revisions and shifts, he brought it off. Separating Negro children "from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race," said Warren, "generates a feeling...
...took the Faculty two hours to debate the fate of the anti-Dow demonstrators. At 6 p.m., professors were heading for the doors, and President Pusey was anxious to be done with the whole affair. He had chaired the meeting with evident brusqueness, clearly had little enthusiasm for prolonged discussion of the Mallinckrodt business, and he had a press conference scheduled for 6:15. Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, rose to make a motion...