Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Christmas is always an anxious time in Bethlehem, a tempting target for terrorists who might want to send the world a violent Yuletide message from the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But never in recent memory has the town, home to 30,000 Arabs, been more of an armed camp than this year...
...union is truly a good thing for the Harvard community, then it should be anxious to hear the University's arguments and then to refute them. Since the union is fighting to keep those arguments from being heard, one has to wonder why it's so reluctant to put its arguments against Harvard...
...obstacles to successful talks were great, the alternative seemed both chilling and futile. Through the week hundreds of police, state troopers and SWAT-team commandos staked out both facilities. The Pentagon dispatched an Army Special Operations Forces group to Atlanta. Yet no one was anxious to resort to force, remembering the lessons of the 1971 uprising at New York's Attica prison, where after four days of inconclusive talks lawmen stormed the facility and touched off a bloodbath in which 32 prisoners and eleven guards and other civilian personnel died. Experts on hostage situations have since tended to focus...
...worth noting that the HRDC isn't exactly anxious to make the community aware of what the Ex has become. The HRDC Board maintains a no review policy for Ex shows. Board members say reviews would increase the pressure on performers, directors, and the technical crew...
Some Kremlinologists speculated that Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev used the new appointment to signal that he was very much in charge. But the Soviet % leader also seemed anxious to reassure ordinary citizens that Yeltsin's discharge had been warranted. In a widely publicized speech to senior party leaders at week's end, Gorbachev did not mention Yeltsin by name but criticized officials whose management decisions "bring society to a fever" and "unnerve people" -- charges that were leveled by many against the abrasive Moscow party chief during the meeting that preceded his downfall. Gorbachev also threatened to "part company" with those...