Word: anxiousness
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With each new report of an atrocity by the Iraqi regime--a woman hanged for waving at a coalition soldier, a nine-year-old boy shot because his family refused to cooperate with Saddam's forces--the President grew more anxious to repeat his message. "Resolve," said a senior Bush aide. "That's what people who have loved ones who are POWs want to hear. That's what the guys in the field who are fighting this thing want to hear. And he is going to hammer it home and hammer it home and hammer it home." So when Bush...
Expectations aside, just how badly or well the war was objectively going was a matter of debate last week even among the Pentagon brass. Some U.S. officers in the field, who had to personally cope with the allied travails so far, were more anxious than certain commanders in the rear, who were focused on the campaign's overall progress. The latter group could point to a number of achievements, including the allies' near total command of the skies over Iraq, the securing of Iraq's southern oil fields and the advance of thousands of troops to within 50 miles...
...Guard troops dispatched to the south waited for U.S. armor to roll by before ambushing lightly armed supply teams in the rear. The battles have left the 50,000 troops at the coalition's spearhead--members of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force--anxious, exhausted and short on water, food and fuel. In one instance, a Marine commander told his men they would be limited to one ready-made meal a day. The U.S. has set up airfields across Iraq--ever closer to Baghdad--to speed supplies to the front...
...paratrooper, whose name cannot be released until his family is notified of his injury, was still alive, although still seriously ill. The doctors at the Tallil hospital estimate that his chances of survival are now over 50 percent. Young Private Talraas is happy to be alive, but is anxious to get back to his brothers on the front line...
...students from inner-city or rural schools, have a “definite advantage” in the applications process. But while suburban kids need to “chill out” about the process, he writes, students from low-income backgrounds should become “more anxious,” taking such measures as beginning standardized testing before senior year...