Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tops of the swell. All the boats were shipping a certain amount of water, and we had to bale continuously. The Lascars were worse than useless: they were too paralysed even to bale. I had quite a struggle to keep hold of a blanket I had been given, so anxious were they to hide their heads beneath it. It was pretty cold by this time, and my wretched pyjamas were not much protection against the wind...