Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sobriety and wholesome appearance, almost any parents could visualize her as their own young daughter plunging into intermarriage. "This," Sociologist Gunnar Myrdal (An American Dilemma) said a few years ago, "is a kind of bug in the white man's brain-that the Ne gro is anxious to marry his daughter...
...Anxious to avoid being tagged as extremists, Luce and the other I.V.S. protesters made sure that no newcomers from the New Left would sign their petition: all the signers were longtime (up to ten years) veterans of the Viet Nam scene. All felt that the American pacification effort, coupled with the harsh tactics necessary in a guerrilla war, have proved counterproductive to the U.S. aim of granting freedom of choice and opportunity to the Vietnamese. Massachusetts-born Hope Harmeling, 24, who teaches English for the I.V.S. in Saigon, touched another source of frustration by admitting that her view was "colored...
...There is not a great deal of sentiment in the House for Volpe's bill," Dukakis explained yesterday. But he added that the House is edgy and anxious to have a recess. As a result, Dukakis said, the House may support a modified version of the Governor's bill instead of the more drastic Basic Protection plan...
...were also tightened upon the national service organizations like the Peace Corps, VISTA, and the Teacher Corps. The National Security Council will probably classify them as essential to the national interest since McNamara and General Hershey both favor the idea and the other Council members are Administration officials not anxious to kill Great Society programs. But even if national service volunteers (mostly college graduates) receive occupational deferments for the duration of their national service, under the new law they can expect to incur maximum liability to the draft when they complete their term--even if they are over...
...year to prepare). The jolting indictment of the Baltimore force prompted the resignations of the commissioner and his chief inspector. In New York, a twelve-man board is considering the I.A.C.P. recommendations and is expected to implement many. In fact, the nation's police forces are so anxious to hear what is wrong with them that there are currently 22 that have paid in advance for studies. One of the 22 that is due next week is a report on the Dallas department. "Law enforcement used to be pretty insular," says Los Angeles Chief