Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parting shot at the dictators he added: "By setting an example of international solidarity, cooperation, mutual trust and mutual helpfulness, we may keep faith alive in the heart of anxious and troubled humanity, and at the same time lift democracy high above the ugly truculence of autocracy...
Blasted from little Figueras, the fourth Loyalist capital since the war began, Premier Juan Negrin, most of his cabinet and a few of his military aides early in the week made a beeline for the French border 17 miles away. The French Government, anxious to get in the good graces of Rebel Generalissimo Franco, quietly let it be known that the Loyalist Government would not be allowed to carry on its activities in French territory...
...special committee has been working for some time in order to find a new President, since Neilson is anxious to retire because of age. Dean Hanford has also been suggested as the possible Neilson successor, but it is felt that he would turn down the appointment...
...Crimson team is anxious to gain revenge on the Blue for the triple defeat suffered Saturday in House swimming and Freshman wrestling and track...
...high point in Hay's astonishment. It also suggests the reason why Hay, like every other man who knew Lincoln intimately, spent the rest of his life collecting material about him. "What a man it is!" Hay exclaims. "Occupied all day with matters of vast moment, deeply anxious about the fate of the greatest army of the world, with his own fame & future hanging on the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth of simple bonhommie & good fellowship that he gets out of bed & perambulates the house in his shirt to find us that...