Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With President Carter off in Asia all week, Washington seemed a city without leadership, but Congress was anxious to provide some sense of forward movement. When Democratic Representative Bill Moorhead of Pennsylvania introduced a bill last January to produce 500,000 bbl. a day in synthetic fuels by 1985, he won little support; but when the gas lines began to form, as Moorhead put it, they "ignited the bill." Almost overnight, he found he had 170 cosponsors, including many Republicans...
...urgent, emphatic, agitated music Bowie and Eno provide elevates them and makes them memorable. "Look Back in Anger" shares the dramatic singing and anxious music, tosses in lyrics about the angel of death and Beatles-like backing vocals, and tops it off with Eno's virtuoso performance on several obscure instruments to become the album's best song...
...setting sun toward Empty. If at last a gas line appears, winding up the road a quarter of a mile to an oasis of heraldic light, the effect is surreal: the machines in their idling file give off an almost animal heat, the drivers waiting inside them feeling anxious, vaguely betrayed (by Detroit, Carter, Schlesinger, OPEC, history) and sometimes alarmingly close to the Hobbesian state of nature...
...playing footsie with the industry. The manufacturers couldn't possibly be more concerned about safety." But even Daugherty concedes that two subtle kinds of pressure are at work as huge and enormously expensive aircraft development projects go forward. One is from the outside as politicians, mainly Congressmen anxious to bring jobs and business to their districts, gently prod top FAA officials to expedite the process of approving a new plane's design and flight results. Another is what Daugherty calls "peer pressure": company engineers seeking to impress FAA examiners with their expertise in order to nudge a project...
...undergird its existing programs with appropriate funding. But, she cautions: "I wouldn't want Radcliffe to be rich. There's always a need to be a bit hungry...Radcliffe is a flexible unit, and flexibility has to do with being a little insecure. You listen better when you're anxious, and I think that Radcliffe shouldn't be enormously wealthy. It would get a little fat in the head...