Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to Bundesen's calls, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis shipped in 11,000 hypodermic syringes and needles, and the state supplied another 3,126. The press, radio and TV passed the word: get the children in promptly for free shots. Anxious parents deluged doctors for private shots...
...Anxious to answer these questions in their own way, the Huangs asked Hsiao Ming to leave Li Po in Hong Kong for schooling. "They would not mind if I stayed in Hong Kong," answered Hsiao Ming, "but if the boy did not return to the nursery, it would cause my husband great trouble." Then she added: "You find the ways of my son strange, and even suggest-though I know you meant no offense-that he has not been receiving the right kind of teaching. I cannot tell any longer what is right or wrong. I only know that...
...results. They had hoped that the seminar on geriatric medicine would make a flat recommendation that medical schools set up professorships in geriatrics, thus help their branch of medicine to become a distinct and recognized specialty. But the dead hand of custom-plus the legitimate arguments of some experts anxious not to isolate treatment of the aged from general medicine-denied them this prize. Instead, they won a recommendation that medical schools give "more emphasis" to gerontology and geriatrics. Nowhere in the country is there a chair of geriatrics, or any course specifically devoted to geriatrics in any medical-school...
...Pittsburgh neither union nor management seemed anxious enough for a speedy settlement to make concessions. Federal mediators met with United Steelworkers' Boss David J. McDonald and U.S. Steel's Vice President John A. Stephens, came away saying only that they would "be in touch." The workers themselves seemed unworried. Said one grizzled crane operator: "I guess I can eat and sleep no matter how long the strike lasts...
...Anxious to Please. In Barcelona, Spain, the local papers carried a classified ad: "Intelligent servant seeks house with small family, no children, preferably with couple, if they are responsible, trustworthy and in good health. Prefer place outside Barcelona in mountains with pine forest, at altitude 600 to 800 meters. Don't know how to cook, preferable if housewife does cooking...