Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against them the GOP, anxious for a smashing victory, sent National Chairman Hamilton, Vice Presidential Nominee Knox, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., and many another, including renegade Democrats like Missouri's James A. Reed, Massaachusetts' Joseph B. Ely, New York's Bernarr Macfadden...
Worry is a dissociation and deflection of attention, a confusion of mental focus by anxious concern for incidentals and neglect of the essential element." It is also "deliberation turned toxic." Most Oriental languages have no word for such a typically modern state of mind. Although "forethought is essential to intelligent living, it is only when apprehension is ruled by nervous anxiety . . . that worry injures us." Brooding, it follows, is "meditation made sick by fear." Confronted by situations that we do not know how to face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible...
...scheduled concerts with the Great Lakes Symphony. When the last number of the program was about to begin the audience became aware that something was wrong on the stage, and for nine minutes radio listeners on the Mutual Broadcasting chain heard nothing but ad-libbing by an anxious announcer. Conductor Iturbi, it became apparent, balked at starting Impressions of Buenos Aires by José André. To Cleveland's Conductor Rudolph Ringwall, who asked what was the matter, the stocky Spaniard snapped: ''Piano!" Ringwall, who is not psychic, finally gathered that Iturbi wanted a pianist to help...
Other ideas: Nations are preparing for war. Japan in particular is rumored to have urged its subjects to buy platinum jewelry. England and Russia were reported to be anxious to keep Japan from stocking up on platinum. Japanese buyers were reported offering $3 an oz. premium for platinum...
...demanded proof of "Dodo's" relations with the Japanese. Farnsworth called up Commander Yamaguchi in Lewis' presence, told him he needed money at once. A meeting place was arranged, and Farnsworth tried to persuade Lewis to masquerade as a cabdriver, accompany him. Lewis refused, but so anxious was Farnsworth to prove his authenticity that he took Lewis to the office where he had The Service of Information and Security photostated, had his story corroborated. For three years, '"Dodo" told Lewis, he had worked for the Embassy at $100 a week and all expenses, had received...