Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present situation Harvard's supply must be brought from points hundreds of miles distant by a fleet of trucks operating in relays. Several times last week there were anxious minutes in the central kitchen when milk failed to arrive until a few minutes before it was to be served...
...second time, Republicans dragged 69-year-old Senator Frank E. Payne from bed, stuck him on a couch in the Senate lounge, had a nurse prime his weak heart so that he could vote. Before Republicans or Democrats could charge each other with the old man's "murder," anxious relatives trundled him back to bed. Meanwhile ten hours of wrangling convinced one opposition Democrat to change sides, provided small towns be permitted their same numerical representation. The roll call stood at 20-to-20. Revolutionist Quinn cast the deciding vote for the Democrats. Governor Green, descendant of Revolutionary...
...practical symbol of better life. . . ." ¶Two and a half years ago Federal Coordinator of Transportation Joseph Eastman was given the job of working out means by which railroads could cooperate to save themselves and the public money. Before his job expires next June, he is anxious to accomplish an annual saving of $18,000,000 by consolidating railway terminals in eleven cities. Alarmed that men might be thrown out of work, Labor objected, argued for two months with the roads, got a bill introduced in Congress to prevent the discharge of trainmen and place other restrictions on the consolidations...
...demonstrating, first, that fear and anger disturb digestion, later that an unhappy mind may cause many kinds of bodily disorders. In Detroit last week Dr. Cannon retold his researches, advised physicians "to recognize the part which [mental healers] undoubtedly play in restoring the morale of the depressed and the anxious...
...split personality he could scarcely present himself more differently than he actually does to Germans on the one hand and to foreigners on the other. When addressing his own people on domestic issues Orator Hitler is alternately brawling and sentimental, repetitious, diffuse, coarse and ever more amazingly repetitious. His anxious care is to "talk down" to the stupidest German lout who can possibly be listening. With the "Little Man" ever in mind, Realmleader Hitler, the "Apotheosis of the Little Man," hammers away coarsely, repeating his points over & over again for hours at a stretch until his more cultivated radio listeners...