Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, a Hamburg judge turned down the formal request for a search warrant on grounds of insufficient evidence. As the deadline ticked closer, a three-member panel of the appeals court reviewed and finally reversed the earlier decision. Just seven minutes before the Elgaren was scheduled to lift anchor, anxious officials sped out to it in a launch and clambered aboard. They promptly ordered three 20-ft.-long containers to be hoisted by crane onto dry land. As the container ship headed toward Sweden several hours behind schedule, authorities opened the boxes. All their suspicions were confirmed: inside...
...movie begins with anxious, ferocious Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) clambering up over the side of her baby's crib and hurling herself on the tot, hysterically convinced that she has only seconds to administer the kiss of life to her darling Emma and save her from crib death. Naturally, all she does is disturb a healthy infant's sleep. From this scene it is obvious that Terms of Endearment is a comedy...
...both the U.S. and two important allies, Japan and South Korea, as Reagan made the first trip to Asia of his presidency. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, in particular, faces an election, perhaps as soon as December, in which his Liberal Democratic Party may lose parliamentary seats. He was anxious to display himself to Japanese voters as a world statesman closely consulted by an ally of whom he often says: "I call him Ron, and he calls me Yasu." The White House saw reciprocal advantages in giving a boost to Nakasone, whom it judges to be more cooperative on defense...
Cooper was the only candidate to reach the quota in the first round of voting Cooper, who was anxious to give credit "to all those people who trooped out to ring door bells and miss their dinners for me," urged Harvard students to take an interest in public education...
Grenadians are also anxious about what some call the "threat" of U.S. aid. The U.S. is undoubtedly aware of radical political elements in all the region's former British colonies. Having wrested Grenada from the grasp of Havana and Moscow, the U.S. may wish to prove to Grenadians, and everyone else in the Caribbean, that the capitalist world can provide more economic benefits than the Communist. Some Grenadians fear that as the U.S. tries to administer that lesson, the islanders will lose their distinctive characteristics as a West Indian people. They do not want a community shorn...