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Word: anxiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember an amiable conductor collecting tickets right before the crash. I heared him say to one passenger anxious to get to his destination, "Don't look so worried, it's not that bad." His words to a young couple directly behind me were, "Move to one of the first three cars for Springfield." These were ominous words...

Author: By Vernon A. Holmes, | Title: The Colonial Collision | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...same work by the same fashionable names, trophies of an insecure herd instinct that relies too much on too few galleries, most of them in New York (Castelli, Pace, Blum Helman, Boone, Cooper, Gagosian), is bound to feel dyspeptic. Was ever so much money raked from such passive, anxious uniformity of taste? And did dealers ever have such an unbridled influence on museum trustees and, through trustees, on curators? The problem is not confined to Los Angeles, but it seems to show itself there more vividly than in any other major art center. Such lobbying is why MOCA's opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Getting On the Map | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

During the week after Marcos' announcement of snap elections, Cory was anxious and confused as she moved from one meeting to another. Though few knew it at the time, she was quietly undergoing a crash course in the art and issues of presidential campaigning under the tutelage of her brother Jose (Peping) and a selected group of advisers from business and academia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cory Aquino: Starting the Campaign with Hope and a Prayer | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...looking for the smoking gun), which leads to only one result, whereas Reagan's destiny can still take a number of turns. Finally, Watergate revives that memory of a period when the press got hopelessly muddled over whether its role was to be observer or participant. It is not anxious to revive that issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch Thomas Griffith Watergate: a Poor Parallel | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...Writers anxious to improve the quality of their prose and arguments should retype major drafts from a print-out. What? Is the Happy Hacker denouncing the key virtue of a word (once-its-there-you-never-have-to-type-it-again) processor? Not really. Rather, the Hacker is suggesting that by occasionally retyping a paper from scratch, the writer is forced to reconsider every word and sentence in a much more active way than simply by dragging a cursor across...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Literary Hacker Strikes: Writing With a PC | 12/10/1986 | See Source »

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