Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument goes, is the land of tension and conflict. Men work too hard, play too hard, worry too hard. The image of the tycoon who, at 50, has attained money, success, a yacht and coronary thrombosis is almost part of American folklore. Today, more than ever, anxious men (far more than women) of middle age are scurrying to doctors' offices for a heart checkup. More than two-thirds will be told that they have nothing to worry about; the others can look for no quick cures, but can count on treatment to reduce discomfort and danger. In any case...
Bill's plane did not land at Phoenix on schedule. A Coast Guard aerial search along his path began the next day. The searchers veered a few miles into Mexico. They found nothing. When Charles Schrieber made anxious inquiries the following day, more planes went up to sweep the desolate route. Again they found nothing, and in a few days the search was abandoned...
...good health at the polls last May had itself taken on a disconcerting pallor by the time the Tories gathered at Bournemouth last week for their annual party conference. Though they called it a "victory" conference, the Conservatives were hardly in a mood for self-congratulation. Instead, they were anxious to hear from their leaders that some steps were being taken to curb Britain's worsening gold and dollar position and growing inflationary pressures, rising cost of living. The leaders obliged...
Every year hundreds of thousands of Americans suffer first attacks of coronary thrombosis, 170,000 of them men between 40 and 60. Of the total, 80% survive to enter the anxious period of convalescence through which President Eisenhower is low passing. The high survival rate is more a testimony to the toughness of the heart and better recent understanding of how it functions than to any radical advances in medication. Neither new surgical techniques nor wonder drugs have proved useful in treating coronary thrombosis...
...have no way of knowing how many of Superintendent Smith's Kindergarten mamas are truly considering their children's best interests, and how many are just anxious to have a glorified baby-sitter for a few hours a day [Sept. 5]. Won't parents ever learn to stop pushing their children to satisfy their own selfish desires? Immaturity in a child meeting the school situation for the first time often means headaches for the teacher and parents, and sometimes develops in the child a dislike for school that can not easily be erased. Perhaps this incident will...