Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughly alarmed, pulled every possible wire to keep Spain's fire from spreading. The Quai d'Orsay hastily drew up a strict agreement of neutrality, sent it to Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, The Netherlands. Italy, Russia and Germany hedged elaborately. But with anxious Britain backing France, the neutrality agreement was perfunctorily accepted "in principle" by almost every European State...
...fresh pilot, a copilot, six passengers. One of the latter was Captain Vernon C. Omlie, oldtime flyer and husband of equally famed Aviator Phoebe Omlie. Six minutes after the takeoff, the airport called the plane by radio, got no answer By 10:20, when there was still no word anxious officials began querying airport; along...
...Birmingham, later became a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club. Moving to Chicago Kiwanian Joy was immensely successful as a construction engineer, put up some $20,000,000 worth of buildings, finally retired to spend the rest of his life in his native Birmingham. Proud Kiwanians were anxious to gather him back in the fold, but Engineer Joy's ideas had changed. "You're nothing but a backslapping, song-singing, weekly-lunching bunch!" he snorted...
...Anxious adherents of the so-called "Social Credit" theory, which William Aberhart was elected to apply (TIME, Sept. 2), hotly protested: "Velocity dollars have nothing whatever in common with Social Credit, and Premier Aberhart has enacted not one single genuine Social Credit statute in Alberta." The great thing "Bible Bill" has done for mortgage-ridden Alberta farmers is to decree arbitrarily that no interest rate in the Province can exceed...
Kindly President Miklas fared even worse, had to stand for a whole hour in which nothing could be heard but the frantic cheers of Austrians for the ruler of Germany. Vienna police, either anxious for their own skins or under secret orders from absent Chancellor Schuschnigg, not only permitted Nazis to roar their forbidden Horst Wessel song but let them slug and beat up Socialists, Communists and Jews. Four plug-uglies wearing Nazi white socks dumped a blood-bespattered youth in front of some policemen, mockingly declared : "Here's a Red for you who's been shouting against...