Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in Washington, President Ford was determined to take firm enough action to save the crew and to discourage similar captures. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was anxious to prove, after the Saigon evacuation, that the U.S. had not lost its will to fight. Thus the White House ordered the Marines to recover the Mayaguez and attack Koh Tang, one of the islands in the area. Sterner measures were rejected...
When housing first became co-residential back in 1970, the system, as one administrator recently put it, "worked." Men were as anxious to live at the Quad as women were to live in the River Houses simply because the arrangement was so new. But as the newness wore off, the popularity of the Quad began to decline and the administration was faced with the problem it now faces every spring: sophomores irate at having been placed at the Quad, demanding to be moved to a River House...
...Third refill costs a nickel. He wanders into a warehouse, following a noise. Through dark passageways of pipes and crate to an open space. It is a street fight, two sleek men clutching bills and taking bets, two bare-chested bruisers facing each other, brown ill-fitting suits and anxious Depression faces crowded around the bare floor that serves as a ring. The bets are in, the bruisers battle: it's no holds barred-kicking, hair-pulling, and annihilating past the point of all reason; just don't kick a man when he's down. Bronson watches from a distance...
...Wilson so anxious to suppress what Crossman had to say? Crossman's revelations were not exactly bombshells. He portrays the Cabinet as an ill-informed, impotent group of all-too-human Ministers concerned mostly about maintaining their own power and prestige, but these observations were neither unprecedented nor earth-shaking. It seems that what forced Wilson to take action was Crossman's version of factual events--a version that contradicted Wilson's own--and the influence this might have on the left wing of the Labour party, restive and ready to bolt at any sign of weakness on Wilson...
...seems clear that America's enthusiasm for the environmental movement has receded far from its Earth Day peak, when Capitol Hill anxious to capitalize on the popular issue passed much of the legislation now crucial to the ecology movement. This year environmentalists lobbying on the Hill are finding it increasingly difficult to pass or renew important legislation. It's anyone's guess how long the lawyers can hold on with only the legislative spoils of the past...