Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time Restic had imparted his last homily to the writers, Matthews was visibly restless, anxious to escape the heavy cigar smoke and drive back to Cambridge. (But at least this was not as bad as the last sportswriters luncheon Matthews had attended, during Dartmouth week, when the M.C. announced it was time to eat by blowing a shrill whistle and yelling "Half-time"; when Restic said admiringly of a Harvard tackle there to receive a player-of-the-week award, "I have not heard Bob Shaw say two words on the football field. It's not because...
...anticipated, it is sure to be unpopular. The strip-mining bill was supported by environmentalists, Ford's own Interior Department, the AFL-CIO, the United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers and farm and ranch organizations. It was even backed by a few big coal companies that were anxious to have some law-any law-enacted to clear up the uncertainty that has clouded their future in strip mining. Congressional advocates of the bill, among them Washington Senator Henry Jackson, intend to try again...
Myth-Encrusted Metal. The trading up in London represents a faith by many holders and dealers in gold in the U.S. and abroad that the U.S. is full of investors anxious to trade their shrinking dollars for a few ounces of the world's most myth-encrusted hedge against inflation. Those who are betting that this is so point to a Gallup poll commissioned by New York's Mocatta Metals Corp., the nation's largest bullion dealer (1974 sales: about $2 billion). Taken in early November, the poll showed 18% of 1,557 adults felt they were...
Crises, however, did not panic him. In a speech 40 years ago he said: "The world will go on somehow, and more crises will follow. It will go on best, however, if among us there are men who have stood apart, who refused to be anxious or too much concerned, who were cool and inquiring, and had their eyes on a longer past and a longer future." He was such...
Other states anxious to halt the spread of litter are clearly impressed. California, for instance, may well pass its own law next year. As the legislation is now shaping up, the state will bor row more heavily from Washington than Oregon (but will nonetheless ban pull-tabs on cans as a safety hazard). Though industry opposition is expected, a state-sponsored study strongly suggests that most Californians-and probably most other Americans as well-are ready to accept curbs on the throw-away habit that blights the land...