Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...twentysomething with an attitude--sometimes cautious, always confident, occasionally acid, as when he referred to the Girl Scout who wanted to sell a box of cookies to Ronald Reagan as "the little huckster." And sometimes possessed of a tart sense of humor, as when Roberts replied to a professor anxious about being blacklisted because he had lodged a complaint against a government agency: "Once you let the word out there's a blacklist, everybody wants...
...article of faith. For those like the Hilburgs, it's not just about policy: Bryna is afraid the deep personal anguish of the settlers will be lost amid the roar of political conflict. Their new lives are only now being designed by a government agency, leaving them bewildered and anxious about what the future will hold. To start over when you choose is one thing, says Bryna. "But when they tell you you're redundant, they don't need you--'Here, take a few shekels and go'--that's a human catastrophe...
...track policy in Iraq: military plus political. But the two tracks are so entwined that problems on one can easily derail the other. Whenever U.S. casualties spike, as they did last week, the Bush Administration has to remind everyone at home that U.S. forces will not be staying forever. Anxious about slumping domestic approval, the Administration has recently been suggesting that troops may be drawn down as early as next spring. But each time the U.S. signals a likely pullout, the political factions in Iraq jockeying to write a draft constitution, due Aug. 15, immediately signal back that they have...
...Fahd leaves grave challenges behind for his successor, King Abdullah, 81, though as royal advisors are anxious to point out, Abdullah has been the Kingdom's ruler in all but name since Fahd began his decade-long health decline with a stroke in 1995. Fears of a messy succession struggle subsided when immediately after announcing Fahd's death following a bout with pneumonia Monday morning, Saudi television also declared that Abdullah would become King and that he had named Prince Sultan, 77, the powerful head of the Saudi armed forces, who recently recovered from colon cancer, as his crown prince...
...however, could be abolished only by a constitutional amendment--the 13th, which was ratified by the states in 1865. The proclamation clearly had certain powerful and advantageous political implications, especially overseas. We must, however, acknowledge the enormous risks Lincoln took in issuing it. We need only examine the anxious reaction of his contemporaries to gauge how politically risky a move...