Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cure for cancer or the solution to the energy crisis might some day lie in the heads and hands of those black students whom we whites are anxious to deny a decent education...
...Skokie police became suspicious of Thomas Weber, 23, because he was standing near Ford's hotel with his hands jammed into his pockets. When Weber mulishly refused to show his hands, he was wrestled to the ground by anxious policemen...
...much studied analysis--whatever form she arranges them in--but her prose tends to flaunt a certain intrigue that the poems fall shy of. Why, she groans, don't black men assert any control over white men? They're being dogged by death anyway, so they can't be anxious about dying. She figures they don't want white men mad at them. White women seek equality first and then follow the example of black men, according to Giovanni. She thinks white women aren't denied anything by white or black men--that they can step on both. But they...
...White House detail of the U.S. Secret Service, an elite corps within an elite agency. Highly trained professionals, they are obsessed by the urgency of their mission: the protection of just one man, the President of the United States. But that man is almost invariably a gregarious person, anxious to mingle with his constituents, a man who jets about the country and the globe with exasperating frequency, a man agonizingly difficult to keep out of danger. The Secret Service has about 3,600 employees, including 1,380 actual agents; 63 field offices, including its Washington headquarters; and an annual budget...
...Going into the game, it was an uphill battle," explained Kubacki. "Restic's system is very complicated and I'd already missed a lot. I'd had two good scrimmages and one pretty bad one. I was nervous about the game, sure, but not overly. I was just anxious to get my chance...