Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because doctors were anxious to preserve absolute calm around their patient, Ike's railroad arrival was accomplished under maximum security. Troops with fixed bayonets were stationed at 20-yard intervals along the length of the train to keep spectators away as he was carried to an ambulance. Outside the station a helicopter, heavily insulated against the roar of its rotors, picked up the former President and in eleven minutes deposited him at the hospital twelve miles away. When he got to Walter Reed, Ike said he was "feeling fine," later in the week had a Thanksgiving dinner with...
Bulgarians are already hearty soft drinkers, satisfying their thirst mainly with boza, a rye-based soft drink similar to Russian kvas, or with a Coke imitation known as Bulgar Cola. The government is not anxious to change habits. Like Yugoslavia, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, the Bulgarians have imported Coca-Cola from West Germany to please Western tourists. With a record 1,000,000 visitors expected next summer, Bulgaria is merely taking the sensible step of providing a local Coke supply and cutting import costs...
Coca-Cola has broader hopes for the partnership than immediate profit. It is anxious to get beyond the tourists, create a market among Bulgarians themselves. Depending on how well sales go in ten-ounce bottles, Coke may move on to other sizes and containers, perhaps to fountain sales. Meanwhile, if the Bulgarian experiment works, there are the Czechs, Yugoslavians and Rumanians, all of whom may yet go better with Coke...
...approached and Wallace outgrew an instinctive isolationism, Roosevelt-who was anxious in any case to dump curmudgeonly old John Nance Garner as his two-term Vice President-chose his Agriculture Secretary for the vice-presidential nomination. To party strategists, Henry Wallace was the only man who could out-husk Wendell Willkie in the corn belt-and they were right. As Vice President, he headed the wartime Board of Economic Warfare, traveled to Russia, China (where he taught peasants how to use hoes Western-style) and other Allied countries, participated from the beginning in the development of the atom bomb...
...Anxious to improve the paper, Thomson mailed 100 dimes to small town papers around the U.S. and asked for copies. He pored over them for days looking for tips. He began to buy up other small Canadian newspapers, but he insisted that each paper be the only one in town; if it was not, he forced the competition to sell out by cutting ad rates to the bone. He applied the same stringent budget to every paper, keeping tabs even on glue and pencils. But editorially, he left the papers alone. "If any of our editors were to come...