Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter was rushing to Boston, an unusually anxious Gerald Ford went to sleep in the White House shortly after midnight, without knowing whether he had become one of the few Presidents ever to lose a primary election. He awoke at 5:30 a.m., eagerly turned on a radio-and discovered he had defeated California's Ronald Reagan. Although the margin was only 1.2% (a switch of fewer than 660 votes, out of 108,331 cast, would have changed the outcome), Ford declared he was "delighted" by his first election victory of any kind outside Grand Rapids. A reporter asked...
...board made a huge fuss. But two years ago students were still morally outraged about the sordid revelations that a summer of Senate Watergate hearings had produced. This year, two weeks ago, when Malek arrived to conduct a study group called "Politics and Public Management," no one seemed overly anxious about, or even particularly aware of, Malek's past...
Many of these men were once Socialists, and their previous method, if not their conclusions, persists. Moreover, the Public Interest conservatives refuse to identify their cause with the status-anxious "little man," which Rightists from the late Tom Watson to George Wallace have attempted to do. Befitting high-level academics--Daniel Patrick Moynihan is among the contributors to "The American Commonwealth, 1976"--theirs is an elitist rightism. Like John Adams, the traditionalist of colonial days, they seem to have no greater fear than that of King...
...have come up with another idea: building pipelines to carry coal mixed with water from mines to users. The longest line under serious consideration would stretch 1,036 miles from Gillette, Wyo., to White Bluff, Ark. But the pipelines invariably would have to cross rail lines -and the railroads, anxious to carry all the Western coal, refuse to give their competitors permission to cross their land. The argument is before Congress, which is expected to pass a bill later this year granting the coal pipelines the right of eminent domain...
...critics who did the bombarding. The London Times found her "a not particularly talented performer who tries hard enough but against impossible odds." What she lacks, said the Guardian, "is that bruised-by-life quality you find in most top female vocalists" -a failing that the British critics seemed anxious to remedy. Lorna's own view of her performance: "It went better than I ever dreamed...