Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other states seem anxious to get in step. Two weeks after Brooks was executed, Massachusetts became the 38th state with a death penalty on the books, and Oregon seems likely to become the 39th, 20 years after capital punishment was abolished there by popular vote...
...tried not to get so anxious over such a minor point. After, all, isn't this Fair Harvard--where feminist Betty Friedan is a "Fellow" at the IOP, and the Straus Cup competition includes one sport named "Volleyball" and another named "Women's Volleyball" (with fewer points going to the winner of the latter)? Where women trying to study Women's Studies as a Special Concentration are expected to "prove their seriousness" by overcoming obstacles designed to rival the Twelve Labors of Hercules...
...anxious, so angry. "I told my self. "It's exam time. Relax, take a study break, read The Crimson." Robert Slate...
Perhaps with his own political ambitions in mind, Dole has been vocal in criticizing Reagan on the deficit, Social Security and food-stamp cuts. Lately, however, he has softened his barbs, anxious not to antagonize the White House in the coming budget wars and, perhaps, eager to smooth things over before his wife ascends to the Cabinet. Writing in the New York Times last week, he lavishly praised Reagan's "remarkable leadership" and insisted that the President's coalition with congressional Republicans was not eroding, as the press had suggested...
...tour of the U.S. with a visit to the White House last week. Mindful that any sign of favoritism toward Navon might be interpreted as meddling in Israeli politics, Administration officials were careful to stress the "informal" nature of Navon's visit. They were particularly anxious not to antagonize Begin, who is scheduled to come to Washington next month. Thus President Reagan and Navon met alone for only 20 minutes before sitting down to lunch with Vice President George Bush and Secretary of State George Shultz...