Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christians of Damur had been rudely displaced to make way for the Palestinian refugees, and resented it deeply. During the Israeli invasion, the Palestinians were driven from Damur, and the town was returned to Christian control. The Damur Battalion, whose ranks include members of the displaced families, was anxious to take revenge against the Palestinians, and is believed to have been first to enter the camps...
...Huskie goal only made the booters a little more anxious. "When you're seen a team pass the ball around 40 times," Shattuck explained, "you want to go out and buy a ball so you can play soccer...
...magic" of Woody Allen is at once an appropriate title and an indication of the task implicit in the subject. Those who want a methodical compilation of transcribed Allen jokes may as well turn to Getting Even or Without Feathers; that way, at least, they'll be spared the anxious author's attempts to supply context, justification and an inexorable order of development. Running as far toward the present as Stardust Memories, the book obviously cannot address Allen's latest, but the flaw is less than it might be, for no great effort of imagination is needed to deduce what...
...anticipates a tense, three-way tug of war developing among private bankers, debtor countries and international institutions like the International Monetary Fund. The bankers want payment on their loans, the developing countries are not anxious to take austerity measures to pay their debts, and international institutions are reluctant to lend still more money to the poor countries except on tough terms. The result of the three-sided struggle could lead to more political unrest in some Third World countries...
That was only the beginning. The Columbia board, anxious to reverse its chief officer's decision, reopened a possible conflict-of-interest question regarding Hirschfield's wife Berte, who was briefly employed by a market-research firm serving the studio as well as other clients. Hirschfield retaliated by inviting other corporations to buy a major interest in the studio, among them Philip Morris and Time Inc. When the search failed, he refused to retract a sulfurous memo aimed at fellow Board Member Matty Rosenhaus. The Geritol magnate's reaction: " 'You're a liar! A liar...