Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After about 45 minutes the service was over. I had been anxious for the eucharist, to see whether or not the campesinos would partake of it, but I was disappointed; the mass ended right where the eucharist usually begins...
...compensate for parental indifference (which Principal Hal Abercrombie attributes largely to the problem of poverty) and often find themselves acting as surrogate parents. "They cling to you," says Abercrombie of the students. "They wait at the door for you to come to school in the morning. They are so anxious to be around you, they'll do anything you say." Abercrombie would like to see as many as 15 such schools set up in the district. That, he feels, would at least be a start toward penetrating San Francisco's educational...
...House that the President had been right, and that grave matters of national security were, after all, inextricably intertwined with the Watergate affair. Baker maintains that he is simply trying to get to the bottom of the President's repeated assertions that the White House was anxious to limit the Watergate inquiry not to cover up wrongdoing within the Nixon Administration but to prevent probers from compromising the nation's security. "There are animals crashing around in the forest," says Baker. "I can hear them, but I can't see them...
...hundreds of thousands of Cubans attended a mass rally in Havana's Plaza de la Revolucion. In deference to Castro, who was wearing his inevitable fatigues, the Soviet Party Chief, 67, abandoned his customary dark business suit for a casual tunic jacket and a white Panama hat. Anxious to impress the shirt-sleeved masses with his own blue-collar credentials, Brezhnev told the rally that he, his father and brother had all worked in a steel mill...
...salvage work proceeds, the Canal Authority will be restoring buoys, lights and other navigational aids. Also needed are about 13,000 workers. Most of them will probably be old canal employees, including 200 pilots who have dispersed to waterways off Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria and Hong Kong, but are anxious to return home. The entire project is expected to cost $400 million to $450 million...