Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temperature by the butler every morning before he strapped it on his wrist, impatient folk inclined to dismiss Berenson as a lucky hedonist. But he was really an ascetic in reverse who worked untiringly at sipping the ephemeral sweetness of things. His garden drew from him a typically overtrained, anxious and caressing response: he found the lichen "as gorgeous as an Aztec or Maya mosaic," and the moss "of a soft emerald that beds your eye as reposefully as the greens in a Giorgione or Bonifazio...
...question remains: what has happened to the team's morale? After an unbelievable loss to Cornell many thought the Crimson would throw in the towel. Not so. Angered at the loss, and more anxious than ever to finish among the top, the Crimson went through two of its most spirited drills on Tuesday and Wednesday. It will be hard to stop in its quest for its first...
...Many anxious stockholders could breathe easier and so could many businessmen. They had feared that the Supreme Court's ruling in the Du Pont case would be used as a precedent to force companies, big and little, to shuck off blocks of stock in customer firms. But if LaBuy's ruling stands, it could set a precedent of. its own: companies held in similar violation of the Clayton Act need only transfer their voting rights. Deeply disappointed, Department of Justice lawyers may appeal. They well recall that the Supreme Court has reversed LaBuy once before on the case...
...arrows, would have only the rugged terrain to its advantage. Bhutan is ruled by a handsome, English-speaking, archery-loving young Dragon King who has freed the slaves, discouraged prostration in the royal presence, and decreed equality for women. He is determined to keep his country's independence. Anxious about Bhutan, Nehru has invited its Prime Minister down to talk mutual defense...
...impartial factfinder in the steel strike. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell labored for a painstaking month" under a mountain of steel statistics. Last week, reversing his original plan to keep the statistics only for Administration use, Jim Mitchell decided to share them with the country. Many an anxious reporter and confused citizen hoped to find in the Mitchell report a solution to the five-week-old steel strike. But the report produced more of a sputter than a bang. It bent so far backward to be impartial that each side in the steel dispute immediately claimed vindication...