Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the cream-colored Chamber of Deputies in Rangoon last week, troops in battle dress lined the streets; Bren-gun carriers patrolled the bazaars; anxious citizens stood nervously by, holding umbrellas against the monsoon rains and clutching their wind-blown longyis (Burmese sarongs). Inside the building, 248 Deputies were jammed together under the rhythmic movement of 18 ceiling fans that fluttered the loose ends of their yellow, pink and blue head kerchiefs...
...secret of his new steadiness surprises Turley himself with its simplicity: he has learned how to breathe. Before every pitch, he takes a deep, relaxing breath, and "it loosens my shoulder muscles." Turley considers pitching "an exercise in psychology," is willing and anxious to learn from anyone who can help. From Don Larsen he learned the no-wind-up style that aids his control and concentration. From careful observation of his own failures, he learned to shorten his stride so that he no longer bangs his right elbow against his left knee when he follows through after a pitch. Unnecessary...
...another leg up in the race to develop peaceful uses for nuclear power. To be built by New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, N.J., N.S. Savannah will cost $40 million by the time it is completed in 1960. will serve as the model for private shippers who are increasingly anxious to get into the field. Cities Service. Gulf Oil and Standard Oil (N.J.) are all interested, and the Maritime Administration hopes to have the first nuclear-powered tanker in the water by 1961. One possible formula to help private industry get into the new field: the U.S. Government will...
According to Martin G. Silverman '60, president of the Council, Menshikov expressed himself as being "anxious to speak" to the students and faculty. He will appear as part of a program sponsored by the Council celebrating United Nations Day, October...
Into Philadelphia's Sheraton Hotel for its annual meeting jammed 2,500 anxious stockholders. Most of the real noise was made by Manhattan's Randolph Phillips. 47, who has been leading a proxy fight to get himself elected to the Pennsy's 18-man board. A business writer who worked for the late Robert Young until they quarreled (TIME. Dec. 26. 1955), Phillips thinks that the Pennsy can be run better -and that he is the man to help do it. Last week he claimed the proxies of 22.700 of the 146,000 stockholders, figured...