Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khomeini is anxious to continue his war against Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and U.S. intelligence sources expect another attack on the strategic Iraqi city of Basra, located on the Persian Gulf in the heart of Iraq's oil-producing region, within the next few weeks. But for the first time, Iranian mullahs are having difficulty recruiting volunteers to die for their cause. Complains Hojjatoleslam Rouhani, chairman of the defense committee of the Majlis: "Only some valorous and militant youths go to the fronts, and the others loaf around with no sense of responsibility." The mullahs...
...take away. Harvard's spurning of the third world center request wasn't killing a sacred cow so much as refusing to establish a new one. RUS and the Clearinghouse, on the other hand, are traditions, remnants of an activist era still remembered fondly. The University obviously feels anxious to do away with such nettlesome relics. But in picking a fight with Harvard's women, instead of being satisfied with the status quo, it may be getting into its own Vietnam--a needless fight from which it cannot emerge victorious, only tired and tarnished...
...find the Arctic Ocean more frightening than any other region I have traveled through, certainly more hostile than Antarctica." In spite of their success, neither Fiennes nor Burton is anxious to set out again for parts unknown any time soon. "This three-year odyssey has exorcised my wanderlust with a vengeance," said Fiennes. "I have had more than enough." The Transglobe's return to England capped a weekend marked by maritime achievement. Bill Dunlop, 41, a former truck driver from Maine, sailed his 9-ft. ⅞-in. sailboat, Wind's Will, into Falmouth after a 78-day voyage...
...prisoner could convince a parole board that he had learned his lesson, he could go. Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau says that "prisoners tend to go into rehabilitation programs for the purpose of convincing the parole board that they have been rehabilitated." Prisoners are in a perpetual, anxious limbo and would generally prefer to know their release date from the outset. Time served for identical crimes can vary five-fold or more. Such a routine does little to demonstrate to the lawless the law's evenhanded integrity. Furthermore, says Morgenthau, "if prisoners knew how long they were going...
...claim-that a stimulated G spot may secrete a fluid-should serve to alleviate the anxiety of women who notice unexpected secretions during orgasm. "In the years before I was aware of the G spot," he says, "I saw about one patient a year who came to me very anxious because she seemed to be urinating during orgasm. She usually thought she needed bladder repair, but the patient was urged not to worry; there was no dysfunction...