Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little like a horse in a panic, waiting at the gates," Monad says. "I think we're ready to go, I'm convinced of the merits of the campaign, and I'm anxious...
Outside Britain there is still some worry about German ambitions. Poland and Czechoslovakia are anxious; France, the Netherlands and others are uneasy. The more realistic concern is that Bonn's agenda may be so filled with intra- German and East European issues that Germany will lose some of its eagerness for economic and political integration in the E.C. Jacques Delors, the Community's chief executive, is challenging Germany to prove that it is still determined to go forward. "Are the Germans truly interested in economic and monetary union?" he asked last week. "We need clear, unambiguous political commitments." The time...
...first snowflakes of the season that fell on Moscow last week. The bread and cigarette crises of August have not so much disappeared as given way to discussions about fresh shortages of eggs and butter; well-founded fears of forthcoming scarcity in supplies of potatoes, vegetables and fuel; anxious predictions of riots in coming months. The nation's leaders openly allude to a possible breakdown of authority and descent into anarchy...
...climax of an annual courtship between the U.S. male and his faster, stronger, younger self. As his favorite players dance through the 162-game season, a fan takes in the teasing thrills, the endless conversation. Then postseason nears, and his passion is stirred like a farm boy's anxious lust on prom night. Larry Andersen, the veteran relief pitcher, could have been defining America's obsession with professional sport when he said, "You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever." And that goes for women as well as men, for dockworkers and day-care specialists...
...legacy of communism will be more durable and hindering than we thought before," Lewandowski said in an interview with The Crimson. "There is a generic memory of industrial culture from before the war. Our generation is anxious to rebuild...