Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pollak, in a letter to the Mirror, declares that he was particularly anxious to correct that part of the fake story which said "he had to be fished out of the pool," since he learned to swim at Nantucket,"... and I hate to think of losing this skill, even in a cooked-up news item...
Last week's seven days were long and anxious for U. S. politicos. They were waiting for a deadline-midnight Saturday, last moment when Franklin D. Roosevelt could withdraw his name from the Illinois preferential primary, April...
Then he spoke to the neutrals. To the weak ones, fearing Germany and Russia, he said that Britain's war desire is "that the small nations of Europe shall henceforth live in security, free from the constant threat of aggression." To the strong ones, anxious to stay out of this war and eliminate future ones, he looked toward a new, disarmed, mutually trusting body of nations. And here he spoke to the U. S. This new order could not be molded by England and France alone. To achieve the dream, "other nations must come in and help...
...office was that of a modest, softspoken, pro-bono-publico millionaire. Johnny Hanes had left Wall Street to serve as liaison between business and the New Deal, first as an SECommissioner, then (until last December) as Undersecretary of the Treasury. He had quarrelled with many New Dealers, was anxious to get back into business, had turned down several lucrative offers. The Associated trusteeship tempted him because it combined business with a chance to do a job in the public interest. But no sooner was his name proposed than lightning began to play around his head. It started when New York...
...Being anxious to avoid charges of "spreading propaganda," the Committee on Elementary Modern Language Instruction, which is sponsoring the film, chose the most innocuous subject possible. That is a wise move; there are so many people who will object to any German movie being shown, regardless of content, that to present an out-and-out propaganda film would only make criticism more vehement. But once the novelty of German films as such has worn off, the U. T. might well experiment with Nazified productions...