Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love, first duel, first wanderings, first military combat-but he remains pretty much a figure in the foreground, rather like those little paper cutouts architects place on their models to give a sense of scale. What matters to the director is the world beyond, the world Barry is so anxious to conquer...
...determined not to let it bother me," Blair said yesterday about her injury. "It made me more anxious to win." She won her match easily, relinquishing 23 points during the match...
Sure, the two nationally-ranked hockey teams are wined and dined from the start by an anxious press looking to find the most impressive of the pair after the initial meeting. But more often than not the squad that looks best the first night out, gets a slap in the face the second time around...
...canny observers of the society around them. They comment to each other on the events and characters of Revolutionary America. Whether it is Abigail discussing the post-Yorktown morale in Massachusetts, or John recounting the lackadaisical diplomatic adminstration of Franklin in Paris, little misses their critical eyes. Adams is anxious to share his thoughts on politics with his wife. In a passage of overblown prose (often quoted with relish by Harvard colonial historian Bernard Bailyn), Adams salutes the Declaration of Independence...
...German military cadet is shot dead in a Paris Metro station. It is a planned act of terrorism carried out by a band of young Marxists. The Germans notify the Vichy government that reprisals are called for. Anxious to please, the government, working through the Justice Department, sets up a kangaroo court which is known by the grimly evasive title "special section." The ministers of justice even supply their own reason for complying with the German edict - who knows how many Frenchmen will die at German hands otherwise...