Word: anxious
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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TIME.com: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres finally met with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat overnight Wednesday. The U.S. has been pushing hard for the meeting to go ahead, anxious to stabilize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the interests of forging the strongest possible coalition against terrorism. What did the talks achieve...
...lower Third Avenue--that is, the Bowery--that I first felt reassured. All the storefront missions were hopping, their doors wide open. The mission workers were on the sidewalk exuding matter-of-fact competence as they offered their services--water, bathrooms, food, telephones, first aid--to the thousands of anxious strangers passing by. A few of the regular clientele, people accustomed to walking the streets dazed and dirty, stood aside, watching their temporarily down-and-out fellow citizens accept handouts...
...will make my own small statement this weekend - in the form of defiant air travel. An anxious flyer to begin with, I practically wheeze in fear when I contemplate boarding an airplane now to complete a long-planned vacation to the West Coast. But when the time comes, I will get on that San Francisco-bound plane, buckle my seatbelt, and, yes, probably start crying out of sheer terror. But I will be comforted by the fact that I am, by claiming a seat on what I suspect will be a fairly deserted airplane, gesturing impolitely in the direction...
...hours on Tuesday, as we sat before our television sets and radios, we were a nation shocked, disbelieving, horrified and furiously angry, until finally the darkness of a deathly black night draped its restless silence over our wounded America. We have awakened a nation of mourners, anxious to learn the fates of our loved ones, and grieving for those we have lost. We have awakened with the consciousness that a ghastly nightmare has become our reality, and our hearts and souls ache bitterly. And so today, in spite of our pain, we ask how we must respond to the violence...
...hear the phone ringing on the other end of the line. Two times, three times—the ringing stops, replaced by that interminable beeping some soft, almost tangible distance away from my anxious ear. Circuits busy. Again...