Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were other motives of greater consequence. The President wanted to galvanize the lagging pacification program in Viet Nam-and thereby show such critics as New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy that he was not ignoring the political and social aspects of the war. He was anxious to follow up the abortive peace offensive with an equally grand and, he hoped, more successful gesture. Johnson also was eager to meet and take the measure of South Viet Nam's leaders...
...admit his true identity. Then, according to the police, he broke down and began to tell all. Acting on his information, police have already pulled in several suspects and some smuggling gear, including a jacket with specially constructed pockets for carrying gold bars. Many Bombay gold traders were anxious, for rumor had it that Walcott had been mixed up with a gang that had smuggled no less than $150 million in gold and diamonds into India during the past four years...
...lawyers. Had the Birch Society gone into court as a plaintiff, it would have faced the difficult task of proving that it had suffered damages from McGaw's editorial. More important, it could have been forced to produce the same membership lists that it was so anxious to keep under wraps...
Occasionally, Hedda came through with some meaty news. She reported as "the truth" a conversation between Producer Harry Cohn and a gangster. Cohn, anxious to break up a blossoming romance between Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak, telephoned Las Vegas. Said Cohn: "You take care of this for me, will you?" "Sure," said the voice on the other end. "I'll just say, 'You've only got one eye; want to try for none?' " On another occasion, Hedda reported that she had chastised Elizabeth Taylor for unseemly conduct after Mike Todd's death, and then...
Jane Irving, one of the 30, emphasized that the group is anxious to make the School more responsive to the interests of its students...