Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Although he was asking for less than the nation had been prepared to expect and many willing hands were anxious to give, the President, speaking in the mood that currently grips Washington, talked as if the U.S. public still had to be persuaded that there was a crisis on. It seemed a time for the trumpet call to meet imminent danger, but the trumpet note was never heard. The President's words were simple and clear, but the message-like so many of Harry Truman's non-political utterances-had a thin, overworked and flat quality. His speech...
...answer was to be found at the Pentagon, where top military men were anxious not to have too much mobilization too fast. Their argument went thus: it would be chaotic to throw millions of men into uniform without enough weapons to fight with or enough men to train them; to do so would also disturb the production of war goods by robbing defense plants of men before the plants were in shape to replace them. One of General George Catlett Marshall's convictions is that all-out mobilization should be ordered only at the certain prospect...
...anxious voices crying for an end to the inadequacies of the draft law, the clearest and most realistic answer came from the nation's educators. Such men as Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and North Carolina's Gordon Gray had asked for two years' military service for all young men reaching the age of 18. The influential, 37-member Association of American Universities last week added its weight to the proposal...
...have to pull out. Last week the foreign colony which gathers at Hanoi's Metropole Hotel rustled with rumors. Some said that the Chinese were already advancing from Langson, others that there was a deal on with the Viet Minh. The Metropole's atmosphere was one of anxious, noisy gaiety. Foreign newsmen met with free-lancing pilots who were making small fortunes flying people out of the threatened area...
Aside from reports, the work that takes the most time at the seven annual meetings is the approval of all permanent appointments and those temporary ones of more than one year. Overseers are anxious to make clear that they are no rubber-stamp, but only four men have been turned down in the last 100 years...