Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes the council so anxious for conversation is concern that Eastern Orthodoxy may yet swing toward Rome. Protestants worry that Pope John XXIII intended to invite Orthodox, but not Protestant, delegates to his Ecumenical Council in 1961 (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week the Catholics took pains to allay the fears-at least for the present. At an informal conference. Pere Christophe Jean Dumont, head of a five-man Catholic contingent, explained that the Pope's first announcement had been misinterpreted; none but Roman Catholic bishops were ever to have been invited. Later, though, Pere Dumont tossed...
...nine short of the two-thirds majority needed to override, came on the $1,375,000,000 housing bill, which Ike had vetoed in his battle to keep the nation's budget in balance. The issue was forced by the Senate's Democratic liberals, desperately anxious to get out from under the President's firm fiscal thumb. In insisting on an attempt to override, they exposed themselves and their party to a needless and humiliating defeat...
...Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude even to compare with recent generations of U.S., British and Russian nuclear devices. Knowing their first bomb to be primitive, the French are anxious not so much to catch up with other atomic powers overnight as to capture political prestige by becoming Member No. 4 of the exclusive "nuclear club...
...WAPE-are assaulted by the monotonous beat of rock 'n' roll. A three-minute trickle of news every two hours is the only relief; every station break is loud with the lovesick ape. The continuous uproar is so hypnotic that few who hear it seem anxious-or able-to turn it off. Last week one-year-old WAPE finished its fourth month as the top-rated station in a highly competitive nine-station town...
Automakers, too, are anxious to keep up the July pace and are expected to complete the changeover to 1960 model production in three to four weeks, one of the shortest periods on record. With the finish of 1959 car production scheduled for the end of this month. 1960 models will roll out in volume by mid-September, a full month ahead...