Word: impatienceâ
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Confusion & Anxiety. Yet, for all this material prosperity and cultural prowess, Germany today is marked by a growing feeling of confusion, anxiety and impatience???a nagging feeling that, after all, the country's hard work has really got it nowhere. Now that they no longer have to scramble for the necessities of life, West Germans are taking another look at themselves and their role in the world. Having gorged themselves materially in successive waves of Fresswelle (eating), Autowelle (auto buying), Wohnungswelle (home buying), Reisewelle (traveling) and even Edelfresswelle (delicacies), they now seem intent on quite a different course: a neue...
...Technically, it justified and redeemed the long labors, careful planning and exacting standards of the U.S. space program, into which the nation has hopefully ?and with occasional impatience???poured more than several billion dollars...
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