Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...austere, aloof and tense Premier, it had been anything but an easy year. He had kept Iraq from a Nasser takeover, despite anxious moments such as the Mosul revolt in March, but only at the cost of accepting more help from the street-organizing Communists than was healthy. In a characteristic compromise last week before the holiday began, Kassem reshuffled his Cabinet, adding three minor-league Communist sympathizers (including Iraq's first woman minister, a practicing gynecologist), but effectively demoting the once powerful fellow-traveling Minister of Economics Ibrahim Kubba to Minister of Agrarian Reform...
...Vice President Nixon. McDonald pleaded for government help to break the deadlock. He remembered the record 62½? , three-year wage package won by the steelworkers in 1956 after Labor Secretary James Mitchell and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey pressured management, knew that this time both Nixon and Mitchell were anxious to see a no-strike settlement. But the Administration stuck firmly to its hands-off policy. When President Eisenhower later renewed his earlier plea for an indefinite extension of bargaining, Dave McDonald wearily turned it down, announced that the union would strike this week...
France has one of the best and most buoyant steel positions in its history, raised production to a record 16.2 million tons last year. The industry is modern, research conscious and anxious to win new markets. Though Japan is still considered a high-cost producer of iron and steel-mainly because it has to import raw materials-it also manages to compete actively abroad, is moving into South America at the expense of the U.S. industry. Japan's steel industry is dominated by six big firms led by Yawata Iron & Steel, under President Arakazu Ojima, who wants the industry...
...York, exhibitors anxious to catch the crest of the court-born publicity rushed to get Lady, pathetic though she might be, onto their screens...
...Emergency. Ike's letter was an answer to a letter from McDonald, who was so anxious to have the Administration take a hand in negotiations that he asked the President to appoint a fact-finding board to look into the issues. Arthur J. Goldberg, the union's general counsel, phoned Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell in Washington while McDonald's let ter was still on the way, told him what was in it. Mitchell, who had been keeping in touch with both sides, got together with Vice President Nixon and White House Counsel Gerald Morgan and worked...