Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entries came in from Maine and Montana, Bangladesh and Britain, Italy and Iran, South Africa and Saudi Arabia and Yugoslavia. There were big planes folded from 3-ft. sheets of heavy poster paper and little ones from bits of waxy British toilet tissue. One anxious aeronautics engineer flew in from Kansas to hand-deliver his delicate creations, while another tucked his into a cereal box insulated by stale flakes of Corn Total. A third, with touching trust in the U.S. Postal Service, simply scrawled the contest address across the wings of his plane and plastered a stamp onto its nose...
...earlier come forward to support and supplement the Bossert account, told her story to TIME's Jacqueline Reditt. Her face pale and worried, her hands trembling, the slight, 65-year-old Hungarian-born woman described how she and her family had kept a longtime lodger's secret for 22 anxious years...
...decorator Keith Haring, 27, with his thin doodles of barking dogs and radioactive babies. Another is Jean-Michel Basquiat, 24, much hyped as a sort of art-world Eddie Murphy and hence especially popular with Los Angeles collectors, his untutored and zappy scrawls routinely praised for their "energy." (This anxious hope for signs of energy is a sure index of cultural flabbiness.) But for postgraffiti art the writing is already on the wall, and such careers, rolling in their limos to oblivion, remind one of Robert Graves' Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist...
...Though Californians would also be hit hard by loss of the deduction, Republican Governor George Deukmejian had a muted response on the matter. While Deukmejian said he would look "askance" at any reform that resulted in a net tax increase for residents of the state, he was clearly not anxious to provide early offense to his fellow Californian in the White House. In San Francisco, which has no income tax but exacts hefty real estate levies, Mayor Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, endorsed the overall Reagan plan as "a major step forward." Only in a few high-tax states...
...very anxious to play," Musselman says. "The odds of me getting drafted are pretty good...