Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters in the Canadian press, demanding to know whether its statements were true, and making several general but, (so far as TIME knows) no detailed charges of inaccuracy. Every effort was made to check the facts officially before they were printed. If any errors were made TIME is anxious to know them. Far from being unfriendly, TIME feels that the greatest service it can do the public, both in Canada and the U. S., is to make known the truth about their production of needed war materials...
...drivers take the tanks for 40-m.p.h. trial runs, see that their Continental airplane-type engines function, bring them back to the shop for final adjustment down to close tolerances (1/10,000 of an inch) before marking them ready for delivery. To the officers of the new Armored Corps, anxious to start training their men in new equipment, new Panzer tactics, A. C. F.'s tank-production line was just what the doctor ordered...
That very suite (308-09) was historic before Harry Hopkins' advent: there, about 2 a.m. on the morning of June 12, 1920, a sweating, anxious group of G. O. P. Old Guardsmen had chosen to nominate romanesque Warren Gamaliel Harding, fulfilling Harry Daugherty's prophecy and indelibly stamping into the language a special meaning for his phrase: ". . . smoke-filled room...
...what Jim Farley knew, he had pledged not to tell. And beyond that one thing he knew nothing. Scratching their heads, perplexed, anxious, the hordes went to the Hopkins headquarters. There they got rough treatment. Not a single post-Convention promise was made to them, and only one pledge was exacted from them : unquestioning obedience to the New Dealers...
...circulation snag hit by PM was Manhattan's delivery system. Morning papers are delivered by local dealers (cigar stores, confectioners), afternoon papers are usually sold on newsstands, rarely delivered. PM took subscriptions from thousands of curious New Yorkers, who then found that their local dealers were not anxious to deliver an afternoon paper. Meantime, PM's circulation was almost equally divided among city sales (mostly newsstand), suburban sales (newsstand and delivery) and copies by mail to out-of-town subscribers...