Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stop the extermination of European Jewry--perhaps the only individual who can make that claim. And this is the way Vrba wants it. His past, though always with him, is a private matter. So for that matter are all his opinions on the subject. He is not anxious to cultivate sympathy or win converts to anti-Zionism. His goal is quite simple: to be allowed to continue his work as a scientist, to be allowed to continue to survive...
...Turtle" Thomas, who leads the team in the number of times hit by an opposing pitch, then came up with a clutch double to right scoring O'Malley and Durso to narrow the gap to one. That's when Tipton, anxious not to leave Cambridge without that magic number 200, yanked Koontz in favor of Mike Pantaloni...
...Aside from painting a smear of communist politics in "We," Shapiro attacks the '69 activists for having been too impatient, which is to say too anxious to destroy rotten institutions, or to put it more simply, too communistic. Thus Shapiro uses Lenin to attack "Lenin...
...fall of 1966, when 800 protesters forced Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to take questions about the Vietnam war on the hood of a car outside Quincy House, a significant minority of Harvard students were ready--some of them anxious--to disregard Ford's warning. The immediate sequence of events that led to the Strike didn't start for another two years; but a radical discontent began to simmer long before that. In the spring of 1967, the teaching fellows--whose successors would provide the Strike with its five demands--began the first attempt to unionize Harvard academics since...
...uniqueness and a fear that if affairs are left to drift, Scotland will be in deep trouble. Fishermen worry that with Britain's membership in the Common Market, they will be powerless to prevent incursions from European fleets. Residents of towns touched by the offshore oil boom are anxious about the soaring inflation brought on by, among other things, sudden prosperity, population growth and shortages of housing and services...