Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights legislation to hit harder north of the Mason-Dixon line than south of it. From New York to Los Angeles, the law's provision would strike at thousands of entrenched white neighborhoods like the Chicago suburb where whites battled Negro marchers this summer. Few Senators are anxious to go on record in support of the bill, and many Negro leaders, who hoped for a much tougher housing clause, maintain that it is so watered down as not to be worth the battle. Though the bill may stay alive for another week or so, it has no hope...
Unsigned List. Understandably, Howard was anxious to get out of the maximum-security ward. After failing to get satisfaction in state courts, in March of last year, Howard filed a petition in the U.S. District Court, claiming that he was being denied freedom of religion. Cunningham and his assistant testified that they could no longer remember whether or not Howard had asked for religious services, but Judge John Butzner Jr. held that he must have "expressed his desire to hold Muslim religious services"-otherwise there would be no rational explanation for the superintendent's order. Even so, the court...
Sure, a lot of Molly's monologues in Ulysses are not for sodality teas, but the people filming the book in Dublin are not anxious to refight that long court battle of some 35 years ago about whether James Joyce's brilliant book was also unspeakably dirty. Nor do they wish to bowdlerize the bawdier passages reproduced in the script. So they've decided that when the film with its cast of English, Irish and Scottish stage actors is released simultaneously in 135 U.S. and 15 European cities next March, it will play for a mere three...
...findings were stark confirmation of studies made nine years ago (TIME, July 29, 1957), which showed that some cigarette manufacturers, anxious to get a satisfactory flavor past their filters and to their customers, had switched to stronger tobacco...
...government itself has spent millions on Nordeste roads, irrigation and other projects. Under Brazilian law, individuals are offered exemptions of up to 50% of their taxable incomes for investments in Nordeste communications, farming and industrial projects. So anxious is the government that corporations are allowed to take half of their tax debts, invest the money in the Nordeste. What with other government sweeteners, including long term, very low interest loans, it is quite possible to set up a $1,000,000 Nordeste enterprise with only $50,000 cash...