Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Averell Harriman wants to be President, wants the office so much that it is hard for him not to seem too anxious. Not many politicians give Harriman much chance to get what he wants. But even the most skeptical, stopping to think, remember that only a year before the 1954 election in New York hardly any professional politicians thought that Harriman had a chance to be nominated and elected governor. While the politicians were doubting, Harriman was eminently confident that his hour had struck. Now he thinks of himself as exactly the right man to move into the White House...
...easy trick for an extrovert-plus, but he performs it creditably. As he sings, his large bony fingers grope for confidence among the spotlight's motes, or nervously smooth the pockets of his costly dinner-suit; his gangling frame folds into the diffident attitudes of a lady companion anxious to please an exacting employer: in approaching a high note he is the schoolboy cricketer praying to hold a vital catch...
...picked up a copy of the London Times, which up to then had maintained a stern silence on her romance. Wedlock with a divorced man, warned the Times, would require the Princess to enter into "a union which vast numbers of her sister's people, all sincerely anxious for her lifelong happiness, cannot in all conscience regard as a marriage." The peoples of her sister's Commonwealth, it went on, "would see her step down from her high place with the deepest regret, for she has adorned it, and is everywhere honored and loved." But there...
...watches him close while he drives Ryan's cattle from Texas to Montana. Come Sioux or stampede, jayhawker or dust devil, nothing bothers Clark-except, of course, the fact that he has to act. But like most of his parts, this one requires nothing much but his anxious little smirk. On the other hand, he seems comfortably conscious (as moviegoers will be awkwardly aware) that the winds which howl about his hairdo do not shake the trees in the processed backgrounds; and he arrives in Montana looking as fresh as a 54-year-old daisy can. At that point...
...Teacher? In Redford, Mich., after police installed electric traffic timers near a local school crossing at the repeated behest of anxious townspeople, four schoolteachers were ticketed for speeding within the first two weeks...