Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have argued that the March elections in El Salvador were the start of a true democratic process. Military aid, they assert, affirms the U.S. support for this process. But that contention seems questionable at best. More significantly, it appears a mere excuse for those who all along have been anxious to step up military aid. The leftist guerillas had been willing to run for the Assembly provided unconditional negotiations among all sides took place beforehand. But Washington insisted on elections first, talks later--driving the rebels from the polls for fear of retribution...
...Portsmouth, anxious families gathered in pouring rain outside the gates of the British naval headquarters for news of the fate of their loved ones. Special telephone lines installed to pass on information to next of kin were jammed with calls. In the destroyer's namesake city, Union Jacks were lowered to half-mast. Sheffield's Lord Mayor Enid Hattersley was on the verge of tears as she asked mournfully, "What is worth losing young lives for? One is too many." The re-action of most Britons was summed up by a Portsmouth man, who said he "had thought...
...Warsaw, the riots erupted two days after more than 20,000 residents had marched through the capital's old city in a counterdemonstration aimed at the official May Day parade that was passing through the city's major thoroughfares. Anxious not to cast a pall on a sacred Communist holiday, the government ignored the protest. But when Poles reconvened for another demonstration on May 3, Constitution Day, the police had orders to break...
...more than a week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel had been shuttling back and forth between Jerusalem and Cairo, anxious to see that no last-minute hitches would prevent the Sinai withdrawal from taking place on schedule. The event was a momentous one, poignant for the Egyptians, frightening for the Israelis. The Sinai, captured from Egypt in the Six-Day War, had given the Israelis a buffer against a traditional enemy and had provided a new frontier for adventurous young settlers. Under the terms of Camp David, the Israelis had agreed to surrender the Sinai in three stages...
Redgrave's lawyer, Elliot Hottman '51, said in an interview yesterday. "I would think that someone like Professor Dershowitz would be the first to speak for this case." He added "My perception is that Professor Dershowitz is anxious to link his name with Vanessa Redgrave's in the headlines...