Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mystified if you hear it this fall; but don't respond to it unless you are very anxious to meet the Dean and can't think of a quicker and better way of doing so. For "Rheinhardt" is the Harvard riot call, and has started such famous rampages as the one in 1936 which wreaked destruction galore on the fair city and fair citizens of Cambridge, not to mention Radcliffe. Its origin, according to the tale, is to be found in the habit of a very lonely young man by that name, who used to go downstairs underneath his window...
...tawdry, tinseled haven of Britain's working-class vacationers, delegates to the trade unions' annual convention heard with disgusted snortings a letter from Winston Churchill: "I wish to represent as strongly as possible that [repeal of the Trades Disputes Act] should not be pressed. . . . I am specially anxious that nothing should be done to impair national unity and also the good relationships between the Government and the Trades Union Congress...
...Americans returning home on the Gripsholm who witnessed the bombing of Tokyo on April 18 were interested to read TIME'S and Jimmy Doolittle's accounts of the raid and are anxious to give the American public our ringside impression...
...addition to the blocking back spot, Dick is also anxious about the center of the line. For the past few days he has been experimenting with every conceivable combination at the guard posts; as the situation stands now, Charley Gudaitis, Thad Mroz, Sid Smith and Wally Kamp appear to be the ranking candidates for these positions...
Fight. Strained, anxious, the Russians still held their morale high. A Soviet writer explained: "There is a point in all Russians beyond which they seem to become oblivious of pain and fatigue. Up to that point, they are stolid and slower to react than most Europeans. Beyond it, they perform feats of endurance far beyond the usual human measure." To survive, the Russians called for feats of endurance from their army and for feats of performance from the Russian workers...