Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Without atomic weapons or an effective army of their own, the Germans worry about the Communists along their eastern border. They continually approach the White House or the State Department for assurance of American determination to defend them. But the fear of desertion remains, and the Germans are terribly anxious to please. They hope to inspire confidence by supporting President Johnson everywhere, and not surprisingly about 70 per cent of the population favors the U.S. position in Vietnam...
King's tall order would require massive federal intervention. The Justice Department, however, has long hesitated to exercise undue federal power−mainly, it says, because it is anxious to boost state responsibility and encourage Southern lawmen to discover the U.S. Constitution. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was so anxious on this score that in 1964 he pleaded "very limited power" to protect Mississippi Negroes. But as 29 top law professors quickly reminded him, the U.S. Code (Title 10, Section 333) fully empowers the President to use all necessary force on every foot of American soil to uphold...
...Anxious to see what Margaret would wear for a really formal occasion, Californians were bidding up to $1,000 apiece for $100 tickets to a Los Angeles charity ball she is scheduled to attend this week...
...Erhard. That dropped the "nuclear sharing" ball back into Washington's hands, where divergent approaches to the future shape of the Western alliance have yet to be resolved. With West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard due to arrive in the U.S. around the end of November and anxious to learn how, when and if the U.S. plans to allow a German voice in NATO nuclear strategy, Washington was still talking about the all-but-abandoned Multilateral Force concept (rejected by De Gaulle from the start). Britain's variant Atlantic Nuclear Force, and a "select committee" concept, favored...
...notes for three 50-page stories and then dashed them off in a mere three weeks. In these stories the reader becomes aware for the first time that something had gone seriously awry in the author's life. In Old Mortality, the story of her own emergence from anxious adolescence into worried womanhood, she describes for the first time the emotion that dominates her later work: misanthropy. "She would have no more bonds that smothered her in love and hatred. I hate love, she thought, I hate loving and being loved, I hate...