Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tutors and upperclass concentrators from most of the College's departments answered questions from anxious Yardlings during the event...
...State Department became interested in using Poppe as a Soviet expert in 1948, and a department telegram of that year said Harvard was "anxious to get" him, according to the article...
Along the streets of the sleepy Soviet border town of Termez, anxious wives, restless children, curious journalists and proud military officers began to assemble shortly after dawn. As local Communist Party officials arranged a banquet of fruits and nuts on a long white-clothed table, a small troupe of Uzbek dancers rehearsed their steps. Seven Young Pioneers, their trademark red scarves flapping in the breeze, clutched flowers. Just after 11:30, a military band burst into lively music to greet the first of 60 armored personnel carriers rumbling into sight across the steel "Friendship Bridge" at the border. When...
Although medical experts are skeptical about the effectiveness of vision therapy, hundreds of thousands of Americans have spent big money in the hope of sharpening their sight. A six-month program of weekly 45-minute sessions can cost as much as $3,000. Believers range from anxious parents who want to better their youngsters' academic performance to pro-baseball players like Yankee slugger Don Mattingly who thinks vision exercises help him keep his eye on the ball. Joe Fugaro of East Brunswick, N.J., credits the treatment with improving his trapshooting. "You need to keep your eyes tuned up," he says...
Lawmakers were anxious to end the public outcry against the $45,500 increase, which left them feeling, in the words of one representative, like "cannon fodder for trash television and talk radio...