Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More Outgoing. There were some anxious days, though, she confides, during the flood of criticism that followed her candid observations on premarital affairs and pot on CBS's 60 Minutes. The outrage was particularly violent among conservatives, whom her husband is courting. Then a pro-Betty backlash began to develop. Signs supporting the First Lady appeared in every crowd on the President's travels; his audiences broke into applause at the mention of her name. Pollster Louis Harris sampled the public and declared, "Betty Ford has now become one of the most popular wives of a President...
Administration insistence that a New York default would have only a minimal impact on the U.S. economy began to carry less weight. Each time Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns was asked about the effect of default on money markets, he sounded a bit more anxious. A Federal Reserve report released last week indicated that 546 U.S. banks (out of 14,000) held New York State and New York City securities in an amount equal to at least 20% of their capital. Carey said that Burns pronounced the new rescue program "interesting...
...special issue had quoted Martin as saying that he was "anxious to call his lawyer in Chicago to make sure that Yale was once again included in his will...
...Crimson fireplug and Russian refugee, defensive lineman Eugene Demchenko, roused the Yale bench with his enthusiastic participation. More than once, self-appointed vigilante Doug Ray spurted onto the field fists clenched at the bewildered Russian, only o be dragged off again by his embarrased compatriots who were anxious to preserve detente...
...Griffin, like Yale administrators and faculty in general, is committed to the normalcy theory. He denies that his students are depraved--he laughs at the idea, in fact. Maybe they are anxious sometimes: "Obviously there is a lot anxiety in anything you are deeply involved in--but there is also a considerable amount of enjoyment. I have to say that it doesn't seem to affect their cheerfulness or sense of balance...