Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mail Now. In a final effort to reach agreement, Goodwin sent Look and Harper a memorandum indicating ten personal passages about Jackie that the Kennedys were anxious to delete; at that point, they were not even attempting to change the book's tone toward Johnson, despite their alarm at it. Two Harper executives flew to London, where Manchester was working on his interrupted Krupp book, to discuss the changes. Later they said that some changes had been made, but refused to show the galleys to the Kennedys. Look also refused to show them its galleys. Jackie finally decided...
...loyal to him that they recently raised his annual salary to $100,000 and approved a succession gimmick aimed at putting him back in the driver's seat as soon as he has served his time (21 years if he wins parole). And some trucking employers are admittedly anxious for his early return; only Hoffa, they are convinced, can keep his men in line. Indeed, Detroit's Teamsters staged a 24-hour walkout last week in protest against the Supreme Court decision, forcing Hoffa to rush home and quell the strike at an emotional meeting. "Return to your...
...Anxious Age. A religious mystic, Baldung made his nocturnal Nativity into a stage set dark with symbolism. In the eerie ruin, light glows from a trinity of sources: a misty moon, an angel announcing Christ's birth to a shepherd, and Jesus himself, who casts a cool white aura over Mary and Joseph...
...faith has clearly ended; a new, and more anxious age, has dawned. The Christian miracle is that it is still dominated by the miraculous shimmer of the greatest birth...
This time, Governor George Wallace is already fielding requests from applicants anxious for even the temporary honor of serving as a supreme court justice. Those chosen are likely to bend over backward being fair: there is always a chance that they may later appear before Justice Simpson's court. And at 73, he has every intention of staying on the bench indefinitely. Back in 1961, the state legislature passed a law aimed at forcing elderly judges to retire in order to get full retirement benefits. Justice Simpson simply announced that his brethren would rule the law unconstitutional...