Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just speculating," he said, "but the Indian government and its vigorous health minister are anxious to get on with birth control now--partly for themselves and partly, maybe, to show the U.S. and the A.I.D. program that it is trying to help itself...
Meeting some 200 party workers in relays at the cottage, Romney told them, "I'm anxious to have your advice and questions." He did not come right out and mention what he wanted most-their support. The response was not overwhelming, even though Romney gingerly avoided offending anyone in the already bitterly split New Hampshire G.O.P. "I found him solid," said one Yankee, "but not overpowering in terms of personal magnetism...
...estimated 150 crated jets and a variety of halftracks and trucks. Even if the airlift were main tained at its present rate, it would take at least a year to replace all the equipment that was destroyed or abandoned in the war-and the Russians do not seem anxious to replace the entire $1 billion in lost equipment, preferring to give Egypt a defensive position without making it capable of launching an attack on Israel...
Somehow, amid all the jostling for platform time, the combatants also managed to make themselves heard. Jordan's King Hussein, who had not been anxious to go to war but gave the Israelis a respectable fight, demanded that Israel be condemned and that it give up "the fruits of aggression" before any peace talks could be considered. Unlike the intransigent Syrians and Egyptians, Hussein did not accuse the U.S. of tak ing part in the scrap. Instead of looking for scapegoats, he admitted that the Arabs had lost all by themselves. "It is apparent that we have...
Across the demolished barriers and through the Mandelbaum Gate streamed thousands of Arabs and Jews. Old enemies were unexpectedly anxious to fraternize; long-divided friends were reunited. Flowing Arab kaffiyehs appeared in kosher cafes, and Hebrew was heard in the ancient bookstores near the Damascus Gate. Cars bearing Jordanian and Israeli license plates honked happily in monumental traffic jams. Israeli and Jordanian police, working side by side, had all they could do to keep the surging throngs of pedestrians safely on the sidewalks, and their job was made no easier by emotional Arabs who insisted on embracing each other...