Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tanned, stocky, neatly dressed, attentive and anxious to please -the kind of man who could be "anybody's grandfather," according to one of his new acquaintances. But the witness was a good deal more than he appeared, and the scene and the situation last week were extraordinary. John Roselli, 69, a known Mafioso, was willingly appearing before Senator Frank Church's Senate intelligence committee to talk freely not of gangland matters but of how he had tried to help the CIA kill Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro...
...rate of 500 per day, but there are not enough flights to satisfy the demand. In all, about 100,000 Portuguese have left Angola since the coup in Lisbon last year, reducing the territory's relatively large white population to about 400,000, but many more are anxious to leave. A Portuguese truck driver named Guilherme dos Santos is organizing a full-scale cross-Africa expedition of 2,000 trucks and 300 cars that will make the more than 3,000-mile journey overland to Morocco in a month's time. Once home, most of the emigres will...
...Wind, for example, is both a comment on the Marilyn Monroe cult and a tribute to the confused, touching woman who caused it. Rocket Man is a sweet conceit in which the writers conjure up for us what the real-life astronauts never seem to have: the feeling of anxious sadness that must attend exceedingly rapid passage from familiar earth into the dark, cold reaches of unknowable outer space. Then there is Daniel, a song about a wounded war veteran taking leave of his family in order to avoid their pity. These can scarcely be dismissed as moon-June moonings...
Today he is after presents for his band and staff, mementos of Wembley. With a personal assistant and two anxious salesmen in tow, he begins inspecting gold necklaces. "Should the necklace go to Brenda?" he asks rhetorically. "No, the necklace goes to Connie; it's a purse for Brenda." Brenda Russell is a back-up singer; Connie Pappas is with Rocket...
...forth in it were enough tc give the rest of the story a veritable Austen contour. Charlotte Heywood is a sensible and clearsighted it quiet country girl staying with Mr. and Mrs. Parker at Sanditon, a new seaside resort on the Sussex coast that Mr. Parker is most anxious to promote. There she falls in love, gets involved in an unforeseen elopement (not her own) and escapes a farcical abduction...