Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aware that despite their own views, the great majority of the American people back the war; a Louis Harris poll, in fact, showed that no less than 72% of the public support Johnson on the war and that 59% want to intensify it. Third, the Senators were anxious to shore up their own political flanks. In Idaho, Church is worried that he may confront a recall move sponsored by members of the John Birch Society. In Oregon, a recent poll indicates that Democrat Robert Duncan, an all-out advocate of the war who lost narrowly to Mark Hatfield in last...
Meanwhile, the air at home was filled with anxious talk of a wider war. U.N. Secretary General U Thant, neither the most impartial nor the most precise of observers, said that Viet Nam may prove to be "the initial phase of World War III." In the Senate, Republican Cooper feared that the U.S. may be approaching the "point where the last possibility for a peaceful settlement of the war will be foreclosed...
...makes the town of Hard Times a place to forget. While another dance-hall girl (Janice Rule) and a young boy conspire to knock off the villain next time he shows up, the mayor (Henry Fonda) is too frightened to kill and too tired to run. Anxious only to rebuild Hard Times and make it a good place for business, he gets his wish when Keenan Wynn jounces into town with a wagonload of cuties to entertain the local miners. Pretty soon the whole town swings like a pair of saloon doors, and gold and whisky are as plentiful...
...waxing frugal in Playboy magazine, Oilman Jean Paul Getty has proved time and again that he is equally at home pinching a penny in his native U.S. or in his adopted Britain. Last week Getty, 74, was at it again-this time with some advice for British automobile owners anxious to get more miles for their money. "No cost-conscious motorist," said he, with his own inimitable perspective, "can ever afford to be without a chauffeur-even if he secretly plays the part himself...
...chances are more promising. Both administrators and teaching fellows agree that a "fifth" is defined in as many ways as there are departments. The inequity means that some teaching fellows are badly overworked and underpaid. The Federation has pointed out a genuine problem, and the University should be as anxious as the teaching fellows to see it corrected...