Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine American Opinion--as well as for Western Islands. Interior decoration consists of the original paintings that were reproduced on the cover of American Opinion. Most are either portraits--Chaing Kai-Shek, Ian Smith, Gen. Curtis Lemay, Gen. Douglas MacArthur--or scenes of American life, as Birchers view it: anxious mothers seeing upright young men off to war, congregational picnics after church on Sundays, flags everywhere...
...Secretary of the Treasury under Lyndon Johnson, says that the meeting will test "the capability of free democratic governments to demonstrate that they are workable in an interdependent world." On the other hand, Europe abounds in cynics who view the summit as an empty show staged by leaders anxious to demonstrate that they are doing something and thus escape blame for failing to manage their own economies successfully...
Sadat, who has been blasting the Soviet Union since the October 1973 war for denying him new arms and meddling in the Middle East. As for Sadat, though he insisted that he had not brought a shopping list, he is known to be anxious to buy $5 billion worth of arms from the U.S. over the next five years...
Lawrence Letteri, the Patrolmen's Association president, said last week there was no dissension in the ranks about accepting the new agreement. The cops had been without a contract since June 30 and Letteri feels most patrolmen were pretty anxious to get something down on paper...
Gillerman said he withdrew his opposition in the hope that the library corporation and the General Services Administration would recognize that the community is "anxious" to go ahead with plans to build the archives in Cambridge and the museum in Cahrlestown...