Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks, their traditional concern has been with poverty and injustice, not revolution. They are anxious about wages, about their children's schooling, about losing their jobs and thus their legal right to remain in the urban townships. Their leaders, for the most part today, are in prison, in detention or in hiding. They have few spokesmen. Despite the current wave of arrests and bannings, tangible evidence of the power of the state, riots and strikes will probably go on. South Africa's best-known writer, Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), has described the black-white confrontation as "a nightmare...
Gulf maintains that it joined under an implied threat of being run out of Canada, where it has a big uranium-mining operation. But some Gulf letters and memorandums unearthed by investigators seem to indicate that the company was, at minimum, anxious not to be left out. One Gulf lawyer wrote a memo in June 1972 outlining the potential advantages of membership, and suggesting that if the cartel's activities ever came to light Gulf could blame everything on the Canadian government. Another Gulf officer took it on himself to pull together several scattered sets of cartel rules into...
Several undergraduates said yesterday their fellow students seemed very anxious about job prospects, but they themselves were not worried about their own success...
...prove modestly effective. To be sure, it failed to create a defense crisis for South Africa, which is virtually self-sufficient in arms production. In fact, over the short run the U.N. vote may even have played into the hands of South African Prime Minister John Vorster, who is anxious to rack up a big majority in the country's Nov. 30 elections and can now point, once again, to the importance of national unity in the face of worldwide censure...
...born Theodore Lazor, the son of a Slavic immigrant who worked in a steel plant in Canonsburg, Pa. (pop. 11,400), for half a century. The election of the last primate, Russian-born Metropolitan Ireney, in 1965 exposed a division between Russian speaking elders and younger members anxious to Americanize the church...