Word: anxious
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...word came suddenly in June: after more than 100 years of barring blacks from its priesthood, the Utah-based Mormon Church was reversing its stand. Spencer Kimball, 83, the church's leader, had experienced a revelation. For 4 million practicing Mormons, a period of anxious waiting followed as Kimball refused to elaborate publicly on his moment of epiphany. Finally TIME Staff Writer Richard Ostling broke through the wall of silence to interview Kimball for this week's story on the Mormon Church...
Shcharansky's widespread contacts with foreign journalists proved to be his downfall. Anxious to cut off the dissidents' opportunities of gaining publicity for their cause in the West, the Soviets arrested Toth on a Moscow street last June as a Soviet scientist handed him a paper on a seemingly harmless topic, parapsychology. During four menacing interrogations, Toth was repeatedly asked about his meetings with Shcharansky; he strongly denied receiving any sensitive scientific material from Shcharansky. Before his release from prison, Toth was obliged to sign a protocol, or transcript of his interrogation, whose accuracy he could not verify because...
...McHenry has been shuttling between New York and seven African capitals for the past 15 months in an effort to persuade leaders of the so-called Front Line States (Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Botswana) to talk SWAPO Leader Sam Nujoma into buying the plan. Angolan officials were particularly anxious for a resolution of the conflict. Their southern border area is scattered with Namibian refugee camps and SWAPO guerrilla bases; last May South Africa peppered the area with a series of bombing attacks in an attempt to wipe out the main guerrilla base...
...remaining forces will be withdrawn after elections, to be held later this year. At the same time, SWAPO has agreed that its armed forces will cease "all hostile acts." The agreement fails to resolve the issue of Walvis Bay, the deepwater harbor in Namibia that South Africa has been anxious to keep. Presumably, it will be the subject of further negotiations...
...Well I figured I could throw Foster off balance Howard, Carlton told me he was waiting to slam it, and I figured by taking my time and appearing nervous I could make him impatient and anxious -- you know, make him expect a fast ball. Which he did. It's all psychological, Howard...