Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dull and anxious, rather than I skim...
...appointment for the interview was at 1 p.m. in the Doors' Sunset Strip offices. But it seemed a little early for most of the group. "You see," Jim explained later, always polite and anxious to make a good impression, "we played at a late set last night at the Cheetah" (an acid discotheque in Los Angeles, one of the most advanced of its type in the United States...
Throughout the investigations Serios has been, on the whole, remarkably anxious to convince and notably open about all procedures, suggesting that if he is a fraud, he is one of the more skillful and calculating variety, a suggestion which nothing known about his intelligence, background, manual skills or working condiitons (Serios often seems to attain best results when soused) would support...
From the very start of the War of 1812, New Englanders made clear that they would have nothing to do with it. They were overwhelmingly hostile to the Southern and Western leaders anxious to retaliate against Britain by marching on Canada. New Englanders not only refused to subscribe heavily to President Madison's war loans, but they invested freely in Britain. They were attracted by the war slogan "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights"-only they forgot about the sailors and concentrated on trade. Thousands of tons of provisions that Britain needed to support Wellington's army were...
...Chevrolet, where he was best known for having developed the Corvair; though the car has had recent safety and sales problems, it is still counted a success in G.M. circles. An articulate man with an outgoing personality, Cole should be the favorite for the big job if G.M. is anxious to polish its public relations image, which became somewhat tarnished under austere Fred Donner. But Cole has a black mark on his record: he was less than stringent in enforcing Donner's policy against participation in auto racing...