Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bind. While constricting the flow of money abroad, the Administration is most anxious not to let money tighten too much at home. The U.S. supply of money has already begun to tighten, largely because of the record demand for credit. Bank loans have risen 16% this year to a total $48 billion; corporate loans and consumer credit are each rising by about $1 billion a month. Worried about the possibility of inflation, the Federal Reserve Board has contributed to the tightening simply by not adding enough to the money supply to keep up with loan demand. The board...
Another is a story of how Frances Marshal Lyautey, anxious to plant a tree, was told by his gardener that there was no hurry-it would not flower for 100 years. "In that case," said the marshal, "plant it this afternoon." Kennedy, concludes Sorensen, "believed in planting trees this afternoon...
...programs simultaneously, as well as to perform more useful feats such as empathizing with all sorts of people. "Most kids in our society grow up without being sensitized to more than one way of organizing experience," he says. All the anomalous experiences are filtered out of their lives by anxious parents and precious schools...
...loss to an also-ran in the League would almost wreck Harvard's chances to win the Ivy title, and it is highly likely that Columbia could spring an upset this afternoon. After a few anxious moments, the Crimson should...
British lawyers can recall only one previous case of an anxious litigant's insuring a pondering judge (in 1959, for $14,000); the idea is apparently unknown in the U.S., where from time to time judges have died in mid-trial and left cases in shambles. In a famous 1944 sedition trial of pro-Nazi sympathizers, for example, the chief judge died after six months' testimony, a mistrial was declared, and the 30-odd defendants were never retried...