Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while an anxious nation watched its television screens, the supremely confident Carter knew the way his personal winds were blowing. He awaited the returns in a starkly modern three-room suite in Atlanta's Omni Hotel?a posh setting that contrasted with the humble accommodations, often at the homes of supporters, that he had used as he began his once lonely campaign 22 months ago. At 11 p.m. he placed a call to Massachusetts' Congressman Tip O'Neill, who is in line to become Speaker of the House. In his soft drawl Carter said: "Tip, I feel confident now that...
...Anxious to bolster Harvard's sense of independence, Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Med School, last year focused his annual report on the costs and benefits of health manpower legislation. "The internal life of every institution is marked, for better or for worse, by events which take place externally," Ebert began. Although he was painfully aware that 58 per cent of Harvard's budget was support from the government, Ebert sought ways to preserve what he termed "the integrity of the educational system" in the face of increasing governmental interference. "If it ever got to the point where...
...scene was Providence, R.I., and the conditions were such that a Bruin victory would deliver the first Ivy League title in the school's history into the anxious hands of coach John Anderson and his front-running outfit. A loss to Harvard, oddly enough, would virtually eliminate Brown from the race...
Ever willing to clutch at straws, movie people have been more than anxious to clutch at the hairy hide of the wonderfully exploitable gorilla who is not only house-high but has a soul as well. Ever since production was announced, King Kong had the potential to be what the industry annually requires, a "big bopper." as they say in the trade. A genuine big bopper is something on the order of The Godfather, The Exorcist, The Sting or, to name the film most like Kong, Jaws. It should generate domestic grosses of $50 million to $100 million and, almost...
Kong, too, has greater charm than he did 43 years ago. He no longer gnaws distractedly on human beings as he did when he got anxious in the original. One of his best moments occurs when Lange, trying to escape him, falls in a mud puddle. Tenderly he picks her up and trots her off to a waterfall for a shower, dunks her in the pool below for a rinse and then, still cupping her in his paws, blows her dry with several mighty breaths...