Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what Senator Nye and his committee were trying to prove was that, though the du Ponts disparage the munitions side of their businesses, they are not at all anxious to let it lapse, frequently encourage the same kind of unscrupulous sales tactics used by their smaller U. S. and greater European confr...
...celebrate Rosh haShanah. Last week both fighters resumed training, weighed in for the fourth time. Rain caused a fourth postponement. Two days later, on a cold cloudy evening, they climbed through the ropes of Madison Square Garden's Long Island City ring and finally began to fight. Anxious to see whether McLarnin could preserve his record of never having lost a return bout to a fighter who had previously defeated him, a crowd of 25,000 watched Ross flick harmless, showy punches at McLarnin's left eye, while McLarnin waited for the chance, which Ross was too clever...
...honor about 10% of each horde were privileged to goose-step past Realmleader Hitler in the public square, and, to make room for the marching columns, Nuremberg removed one of her most famed medieval monuments, the Fountain of Neptune, sacred to every tourist. "After the Party Congress is over," anxious hotel men declared, "the Fountain of Neptune will be put back where...
Thus in the second year of the War the Paris correspondent of London's pompous Times described to anxious wives and sweethearts of Britain's warriors the insidious green potion that had been tempting their dear ones in bistros from Montmartre to Montparnasse. This harrowing revelation that British children yet unborn would pay for their father's absinthe drinking could never have passed His Majesty's censor had not the Times been privileged to announce simultaneously that the French Government was banning and prohibiting le diable vert (the green devil). Last week, after 19 years, all Europe was startled...
Seemingly last week Japan was content to let the negotiations remain deadlocked at this point, encouraged Manchukuo to bait Russia. Instead of the release of Soviet railwaymen demanded by Ambassador Yurenev, 70 more were arrested in Manchukuo. In Moscow, where Josef Stalin is not anxious for a fight, correspondents were told that "Russia will not move unless her soil is trod upon." In Tokyo testy old War Minister Senjuro Hayashi, a lion in the field though some what of a peacock in a photographer's studio, blustered...