Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Overlooked was the probability that most of the businessmen made their visit anyway the minute the strike had ended. "What can you say about a strike," says DeVer Sholes, the association's director of research and statistics, "except that they're striking? But the news media are anxious to build up the story, so you have to fluff it up some...
...savings spurt began late last year, after banks and savings and loan associations raised the interest rates to com pete with the soaring rates offered by the bond market. Recently, consumers have been especially anxious to rebuild accounts shrunken during 1966 in anticipation of a tax increase and out of economy jitters. "The consumer and his family have been expecting the worst," says Chase Manhattan Bank Vice President John Deaver. "It takes them a while to get used to the idea that things are getting better...
...merger must be cleared by the Civil Aeronautics Board. That should be a snap. The CAB has long been anxious to dump the heavy Government subsidies ($54 million this year) needed to keep the feeders in the air. Henry & Co. promise to take an immediate 10% cut in their total $10 million a year handout, and expect to be carrying the full load in three to five years...
...agreed to take the island back into the federation, but his constituents balked and deposed him. Webster insists that he has the guns and money to go it alone. And the West Indies are alive with rumors that he is being besieged with offers of help from underworld types anxious to establish a gambling haven, land developers, and a Greek shipping magnate eager to fly the Anguillan flag (two mermaids holding a seashell, a spear and an olive leaf) as a cost-cutting flag of convenience. Evidence to back up the rumors is as elusive as the eel for which...
Meanwhile, Detroit deteriorated. Romney, anxious to move the waiting paratroopers into the city, told Cy Vance: "We gotta move, man, we gotta move." Finally, at midnight, the President went on national television to explain the state of emergency and the ordering of troops into Detroit. He also made no fewer than seven references to Romney's inability to control his own state...