Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon more than 30 rescue ships dispatched by anxious governments to take their nationals off the frying pan of Spain were in its harbors. Before the Oklahoma could reach San Sebastian, the French destroyer l'Indomptable and the British destroyer Verity had already arrived, hustled all foreigners away who wished to leave. None was more shaken than five Swiss tourists who had been lined up against a wall for execution by the Leftists until they could convince them that they were not Nazi agents helping the Fascist revolution. Word finally seeped down from Ambassador Bowers. He was marooned...
...reason for this involved series of transactions was to reassure anxious Britons that Gaumont would remain "definitely" British. Another, and probably more important reason, was that it will enable the Ostrers to sell out more than two-thirds of their Gaumont stock to the British public. Joe Schenck will also cash in to almost the same extent through the British public and his Brother Nick. Brother Nick will be the only one left with less cash than when he started...
...general Lussu had known during the War declared his readiness to die for Mussolini immediately after Mussolini became Premier. "Remembering how little desire he had shown to lose his life during the War I was amazed," Lussu reflected, "that he should be so anxious to die in time of peace." Another democratic Deputy told Lussu that opposition was useless, since tyranny could never triumph over faith. Then when a group of Fascists passed he replied to the Fascist salute, complained bitterly that Italians were developing a slave psychology...
That something new and hot was brewing in Vienna appeared when Vice Chancellor Prince von Starhemberg was drooped from the Cabinet and Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg journeyed to Italy to confer in secret with the Dictator on his farm (TIME, June 15). So anxious were Britain and France to find out what this meant that their Foreign Ministers pressingly invited Dr. Schuschnie to meet them in Geneva at the last session of the League, an invitation which he refused...
...middle of the 1934 season. Di Maggio twisted some tendons in his knee getting out of a taxi. The Yankees let their option run last year, partly to give him more seasoning but more to make absolutely sure that he was not a physical wreck. There was one more anxious moment when it looked as if Colonel Ruppert might have bought a $75,000 goldbrick. That came in the training season last spring when Di Maggio first bruised an ankle and then, while treating the injury, managed to get his foot burned by a sun lamp. He made his debut...