Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Research in Washington. The Varoutsos family was not anxious to part with the satchel. After all, they said, "it has his initials on it, and the tag says The Honorable Hubert H. Humphrey.'" When the Vice President and his wife moved into their new southwest Washington apartment in October, they agreed to let their electrician, Paul Varoutsos, and his wife Jeanette auction off some of the junk at the old Humphrey house in Chevy Chase, Md., donating the proceeds to the local Children's Hospital. So far, the Humphreys' white elephants have raised...
...Enemies. Understandably, angry Lebanese have been anxious to know how it all happened, and by last week it was possible to piece together, with the mortar of some conjecture, the pattern of failure. Intra's power had made for the bank and its chairman, Yusif Bedas, some powerful enemies. And in a series of separate acts that built a devastating chain, they broke the bank...
...Common Market "to see whether the conditions exist-or do not exist-for fruitful negotiations." His first move, he said, would be to call a meeting of the leaders of the seven European Free Trade Association nations, some of which, like Denmark and Austria, are if anything more anxious than Britain to link up with the Six. After that, Wilson plans to pay personal visits to all of the capitals of the Six to press Britain's case. He did not add, because he did not need to, that it is only the visit to Paris that really matters...
...seriocomic man-woman fencing between Stapleton and Guardino is the special delight of the evening. Here are two people ravenously hungry for each other and yet honestly anxious to cherish each other's dignity. In his most direct play, Williams makes a sensuous sonnet out of his central love symbol: "The rose is the heart of the world...
...computers went awry, so did some of the newscasters assigned to analyze their output. NBC's Robert MacNeil, anxious to help fill in the empty minutes, dredged up the results of preelection polls to make a far-out analogy between California's New Leftists who voted for Reagan and the German Leftists of the 1930s who voted for Hitler on the theory that he would soon collapse. In a more jocular vein, MacNeil explained that Democrat George Mahoney had lost in his bid to become Maryland's Governor because such traditional Maryland Democratic voters as David Brinkley...