Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, though, I had to pass through scenic New Jersey, scenic southern Pennsylvania, scenic Ohio--ah, the natural wonders of the interstate highway system, with three squalling brats across the aisle as background music. Still, this was the price of cheap transportation west. Anxious to reach the wide open spaces, I stayed on the bus as state after state rolled by, telling myself I would get off when I reached America, the old "When it's right, you know it" type thing. Indiana merged into Illinois, which metamorphosed into St. Louis, Missouri and Oklahoma...
...desks of a major legislative headache which has dawdled in the halls of the Capitol for the past 17 months. President Carter, fresh from a week of possible triumph at Camp David, will have won a major victory in his fight to establish a national energy policy. And our anxious European neighbors will be reassured that America is serious about streamlining its wasteful patterns of energy consumption, and shoring up the declining dollar...
...Neill, Jr. (D-Mass.) will virtually guarantee passage. O'Neill is on the side of the Administration again after a quarrel with Carter this summer. And anyway, a nervous election-year Congress, itching to go back and tell the home folks that it has done something about energy, is anxious to pass it and be done with the whole mess...
...These are work sessions," Dukakis, the host of the conference, emphasized from behind his lighted podium at the opening press conference. "We've cut out a lot of the frills. For example, there's no state dinner this year." The small room was humming with anxious reporters from places as far from Massachusetts as the Detroit Free Press. ABC News "action-cams" were rolling away full crank while floodlights bleached the stage, which was conveniently set up for the omniscient eyes of television news...
...sights are set on the Ivy League title and New Englands," Coach George Ford said Monday. And the team is anxious to start things off with...