Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Kissinger arrived in Pretoria, he had no expectation of bringing about any change in South Africa's cherished system of apartheid, or "separate development." But he was anxious to see whether a round of sustained negotiation could end the impasse over Rhodesia, whose white minority government broke away from British rule eleven years ago. And he was particularly hopeful that if all else failed, he could achieve some measured progress on Namibia, or South West Africa, the onetime League of Nations territory that South Africa has ruled since...
Besides, he says, if Horner chose to charge ahead in the Bunting style, "if Mrs. Horner said 'I think this is what we should do,' it would only divide the trustees," a situation everybody associated with Radcliffe is anxious to avoid...
Susan Lyman labels the differences between the Bunting and Horner years as one of style. "Matina is not a person who has bought the national PR approach. We want to do a good job and we aren't anxious to blow our horn," she says...
...children were for the most part unaccompanied--an obvious change from last year and the year before, when anxious mothers, fathers, older brothers and sisters held their hands and told them to try not to be afraid if the white folks over where they were headed, in South Boston, Charlestown and Hyde Park, called them names, tried to barricade their buses, or, as grown adults did often and shamelessly in 1974 and 1975, heckled and threw rocks through bus windows at defenseless and orderly children...
...complete dupe of the most militant anti-Israel forces in the Arab world, believing in and parroting the worst elements in anti-Zionist propaganda. At one point he claims to have discovered a secret plan for Jewish world dominance, detailed in a book that the Israelis are anxious to suppress, lest the plot be exposed. It is because of his fear that the Israelis will get their hands on his book--which Amin apparently believes to be the sole copy outside of Israel--that Amin will only allow Schroeder to look at the book, rather than keep it. The book...