Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the White House for closed-door conferences and confidential briefings. Hour after hour, Lyndon Johnson consulted earnestly with his most trusted advisers in the Cabinet Room. Night after night, the President pored over memos arguing for and against the choice that confronted him. Finally, after interminable hours of anxious, even anguished debate, Johnson last week reached a decision that may well prove as pivotal to the course of the war as his announcement last July that the U.S. would "stand" in Viet Nam. He concluded that the protracted pause in U.S. bombing raids against North Viet Nam would have...
...should reach a peak in its eleven-year cycle of activity. During these years, great storms will erupt on the solar surface; there will be a dramatic increase in the number of dark sunspots and bright flares. Using both optical and radio telescopes, the patrolmen will be particularly anxious to spot the flares, for they always accompany the sun's violent expulsion of swiftly moving atomic particles...
Hatfield faces no discernible competition for the Republican nomination, and no Democratic opponent has yet appeared. There is, in fact, a dearth of Democrats anxious to oppose Hatfield, despite the Democrats' registration edge of 100,000 in Oregon. Hatfield is durable, good-looking and articulate, what he calls "a political animal." Oregon has prospered during his governorship. His legislative record is studded with progressive statutes in the fields of civil rights, welfare and labor relations. He has invested heavily in public community colleges, kept the state treasury in surplus. Thus deprived of ammunition, the Democrats are reduced to accusing...
Spain is also anxious to restore itself as Latin America's godfather. The regime has opened its arms to Latino students, 15,500 of whom are now in Spanish universities. It sends books, trucks, heavy machinery and ships to a growing Latin American market, and Franco recently offered Spain's former colonies $1 billion worth of trade credits and technical aid. The motive ran deeper than merely promoting trade...
...confident that it will be able to obtain the necessary votes needed to make the change. Abram said that the extensive support for the HUC and the HPC in the last referendum indicated that students were anxious to have these committees useful and active. "Since Cliffe membership will enable the HPC to function more effectively, it will probably be supported by the majority of students," he said...