Word: anxious
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General Norman Schwarzkopf returns home this week to a hero's welcome -- and that has some disgruntled military colleagues anxious to amend the record. They say that contrary to many reports, Schwarzkopf was never in line to be Army Chief of Staff. Top Pentagon officials contend that the general was offered -- and rejected -- an appointment as Supreme Allied Commander for Europe. The general turned down the NATO job, they assume, largely because he realized that it has become less important in the post-cold war era. Some top brass consider Schwarzkopf too mercurial for the bureaucratic Army job and aren...
...Administration officials, would further fighting have attracted support abroad or at home. No allies urged the U.S. to move in, and most of the Arab coalition members remain anxious to get U.S. troops out. Bush aides charge that many of the critics either were indulging in moralistic posturing or were just eager to knock the President. "Can you imagine how we would be pounded if we were 'bogged down' in an 'inconclusive civil war' in Iraq?" asks one official...
...hard to get right into this game," sophomore right fielder Mike Hill said. "I noticed that the times we struck out, we were leaning forward on our front foot. We were kind of anxious to get hits like yesterday. We just had to remember to lean back a little and wait for the right pitch...
...some analyses, the 1990s will be an anxious era of dues paying for the excesses of the '80s. That may be true in a public sense, but in private lives, how much fun was the past decade? For most Americans it was a time of struggling to keep up with everyone who seemed to be making it big. Now that the bubble of financial speculation has burst, people should -- and do -- feel entitled to accept more modest aspirations. The real estate market was a prime example of a 1980s torture track. Americans started thinking of housing as a vehicle...
Democratic legislators have an extra incentive to support a binge of defense spending: most of them voted against giving George Bush a green light to start the war. Now they may be even more anxious than the Republicans to push new weapons. Contends Lawrence Korb, an Under Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration: "The Democrats on Capitol Hill are in shell shock. To stand up against the Patriot now would be unpatriotic...