Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried the Chanukah route for a while, but I always knew it was a made-up holiday, invented by anxious Jewish parents to mollify their Christmas-hungry offspring. "Look," they were saying, "you don't need any stockings hung by the chimney with care, or presents under the tree. We're gonna give you eight--yes, count'em, eight--different gifts, one for each day of our holiday." It didn't help, of course, that my parents were not big gift-givers. The only thing I remember getting for Chanukah was a picture book about the Feast of Lights...
While you may be anxious to begin skiing and want to rush out and outfit yourself with Norway's finest, the temptation to buy immediately should be fought...
Some important financial considerations underlie this rivalry for leadership of the Arab cause. Both Cairo and Damascus are anxious to hold and if possible increase the subsidies they receive as "confrontation countries" from Saudi Arabia and the oil states of the Persian Gulf. Fully one-quarter of Syria's record $4.5 billion national budget in 1976 will come from such payments...
Defense and prosecution "were both quite truthfully anxious to have it argued in December," Flanagan added...
...Anxious to stanch the flow of immigrants, the government of Prime Minister Joop den Uyl has offered the Surinamese what U.S. Consul-General Robert Flanegin calls "the biggest golden handshake any colonialist power has ever conferred on a former colony." Surinam will get $1.7 billion in aid over the next 10 to 15 years. At the same time, independence will mean giving up the right to unlimited immigration to The Netherlands. Last week in languid Paramaribo, one hit song was a mournful ballad called There Is No Room for Surinamese in Holland Any More...