Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Norris sternly questioned the motives behind the King-Bridges proposal for an investigation. "I am just as anxious as any man on earth," he shouted, "to expose any evil, if there is an evil. .... In perfect fairness I would say to the Senator I would just as lief Willkie should be on the committee as the Senator from New Hampshire. ... He hates the TVA." Senator Norris had proposed an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. But to many Congressmen the idea of one group of Roosevelt appointees sitting in judgment on another looked, despite the sincerity of George Norris...
...Winthrop House gentlemen were a great deal less anxious to see the recent exam period come to a close than most students. In a rash moment they had sworn mighty oaths to stop smoking on the day of their last exams--a promise which both of them, being inveterate smokers, found difficult to keep. But, being men of determination, they were observing the unwelcome vows under which they labored when they met for dinner last night...
Still boss of his State's powerful Democratic machine although his term as Governor of Indiana ended a year ago, Paul McNutt is naturally anxious that his claims as a candidate for President shall not be forgotten. So on his first return to the U. S. his supporters found it incumbent upon them to keep him in the public eye. His trip from Manila to the White House (to report on Far Eastern affairs) was therefore designed on the order of a Roman triumph...
Radioed Leader Papanin to Professor Otto Yulievich Schmidt, hardy, hairy chairman of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration, who was on a third icebreaker not yet insight: ". . . Wewerenot anxious for a moment about our fate because we knew that our mighty fatherland which sent forth its sons would never desert them. The warm care and attention of the party and government of dear Comrade Stalin, of the whole Soviet people, uninterruptedly maintained in us the conviction to accomplish successfully all our work...
...Anxious to extract every ounce of juice from every story, he would summon young writers before him, subject them to a fire of questions: "Who?" "What did he do?'' "What do you mean...