Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sign of weakness. It is not difficult for the situation to deteriorate into war, but we have to be strong enough to try all other means. We have to do the utmost to avoid bloodshed on either side of the border." Nonetheless, pressured by politicians and anxious that Israel should be ready if diplomacy fails and open war does come, Eshkol last week relinquished the post of Defense Minister that he had kept for himself and turned it over to General Moshe Dayan, 52, the dashing, one-eyed hero of the Sinai campaign and an ally of ex-Premier David...
...demands of my reason and the answers given by the Christian religion could be compared with two hands anxious to join each other but whose fingers refuse to do so. I am craving for their union, but he more I try to join them, the worse it gets. Yet I know that it can be done and that they are made for one another. --letter from Tolstoy to Countess Alexandra Tolstaya April...
...keep the news from the general public. But last week's disclosure that Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division was calling back 85,000 Cougars to correct possible defects was not ferreted out by any prying reporter. Ford sent out the news itself; the company actually seemed anxious to get the word around...
...Martin Marietta's Lifting Body, in which astronauts may some day glide back from orbit. In military aviation, the star of the show was General Dynamics' swing-wing F-lll fighter, flown from the U.S. and shown for the first time abroad. No less anxious to unleash a spectacular were the Russians, who contributed to the show's remarkable catalogue of names and numbers with the YAK-40 jet transport, the turboprop AN-22 which can carry 720 passengers, and the 300-ton Vostok satellite...
...entirely sympathetic with the view that a 1/5 time teaching load should be equitably defined and administered, and we are just as anxious as you that this be done. The only question is that of the bases or criteria to be used...