Word: worrier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...currencies that the U.S. can borrow from other countries under long-standing "swap" agreements. Such borrowings permit a country to buy up a specific quantity of its own currency without dipping into official reserves. Blumenthal discussed the plan several times with outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, a longtime worrier about the dollar, while both were vacationing in Florida between Christmas and New Year's, and got Carter's approval before the President left on his sevennation tour; only the timing was left undecided...
Maybe Evans tempo is paced by nervousness--he is a worrier, never content for long periods. He perceives himself as a member of an oppressed group rather than as an individual success story, and that has a lot to do with his propensity to turn around and help others. "I tried all of this talk about things getting better. We are in bad shape. Do you know that 2.8 per cent of the doctors, 1.9 per cent of the lawyers, and 0.6 per cent of the engineers in this country are black? That's why it's so important...
...making Italian potboilers (an Italian producer once hired him by mistake to play a tall, blond soldier) with graphic glee, acting out all the parts as he goes. About his private life he is more reticent. He concedes that he is partly akin to Columbo. "I'm a worrier, I'm not the neatest guy in the world, I'm obstinate-but I'm not as clever as Columbo...
European women in the main stadium limelight will likely include a tall, nervous blonde, High Jumper Ilona Gusenbauer of Austria. She has leaped four inches higher than her own considerable height of 5 ft. 1 11 in. to set a world record. But she is a constant worrier-about keeping up with the housework, about not spending enough time with the baby-and it sometimes affects her performances. Almost a foot shorter than Ilona is Olga Korbut, who weighs only 84 Ibs. She is the smallest member of a Russian gymnastic team that as usual looks exceptionally talented. Unusually...
...current Broadway role as Mel, the harried adman who is having a mental breakdown, Falk sees more of the "screamer and worrier" he would like to be. "I'm incredibly even-natured, and I don't like that," he says. "It's better when an actor responds like a child -fast. For the short haul, I find a maniac more interesting than someone in control." Still, he is the first to admit in his best hangdog manner that it is too late for a lifelong mutt to become a high-strung thoroughbred. As he says...