Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anxious to help our people, and if our people need me, in time I must go back," adds Kim, who was unable to leave Korea until late last year. But he adds that "an invitation from Harvard is the greatest in the country, and that is why I am interested in studying there...
Perhaps ironically, the Radio Moscow incident comes at a time when Soviet officials have been hinting loudly that they are anxious to find a way out of the costly 2½-year occupation of Afghanistan. In a lengthy article in the Communist Party daily Pravda, the Kremlin last week accused the U.S. of stepping up aid to the Afghan rebels in order to scuttle United Nations-sponsored talks to obtain an agreement on the withdrawal of Soviet troops...
...makes everyone anxious. But because most other kinds of stress are subjective, researchers have found it difficult to say just why a given situation is threatening. "I would die if I had to sit in a space capsule," says Boston University Psychiatrist Sanford Cohen. But while working with the early astronauts some 20 years ago, Cohen observed that "John Glenn just saw it as a job and went about it in a businesslike manner." Notes Benson: "A snowstorm is not stressful to a skier, but it is to someone who has an appointment across town...
...Seven industrial nations* are hoping that the outcome of their ninth annual economic summit, to be held in Williamsburg at the end of this month, will be equally different. Last year's summit in Versailles degenerated into bitter wrangling over East-West trade, and the leaders are desperately anxious to avoid a replay...
...most ardent of sports fans, but when my roommate's lacrosse learn defeated Northwestern to vie for the NCAA semi-finals at Amberst. I was anxious to read the write-up Quickly thumbing through the sports section of-Thursday's Crimson. I was surprised to find that instead of top-of-the-page glory, the laxwomen were relegated to a small, inconspicuous column beneath a great picture of men's lacrosse. Tim Pendergast and a lengthy tale of co-captain comments. "I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia" would rather be given due respect and placement. Too often women's sports...