Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remaining French warship which apparently had been shelling some of the American forces some distance from the town. The dive-bomb attacks evidently finished her. Some days later I saw her from a distance, down by the stern with a list. The evening of Nov. 10 was an anxious one, for while we had no really definite news it was perfectly clear that the Americans were closing in on the town. And with the obvious folly the French had already shown in the earlier operations, I wasn't sure they might not be fools enough to attempt...
...major action was actually in the making, the Japs might well be anxious to create a diversion. In Canberra last week the Australian Government announced that it had "ample evidence" that the Japanese were preparing "a move of the utmost importance." All along the great arc of islands above Australia new concentrations had been sighted. Reconnaissance had spotted new airfields on Timor, 300 miles from Darwin. The increasing tempo of Allied raids directed at Timor and the naval base of Amboina was a measure of Australian nervousness...
...Near Rimbey, Alberta, rescuers of snowbound, frostbitten Alexander Swanson, anxious not to disturb him, hitched a tractor to his shack, dragged it 38 miles to a hospital while Swanson stayed...
...Burditt revealed, it has been suggested that efforts be made within each House to utilize the potential market of the several hundred Freshmen who are moving from the Yard into the Houses this week. In addition, he pointed out that the new Freshmen entering College this month should be anxious to buy furniture at this time...
With the influx of WAVES into Radcliffe providing an unexpected market for electrical equipment, the Naval Supply School and the Coop are anxious to purchase several hundred lamps from undergraduates, the Student Council Committee investigating the furniture problem announced last night...