Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor section of Madrid, Correspondent Bigart talked to the Rev. Carlos Aranjo. " 'In Madrid we can't complain,' [the Evangelical pastor] said. 'It's the national capital, and the government is anxious not to offend foreigners. But in the provinces it is quite different. Eight or ten chapels have been forced to close...
...tensest Senate hour Dr. Harris can recall is the time in 1944 when Senator ("Dear Alben") Barkley broke with Roosevelt. His most anxious time of Senate prayer: Dday, when the Senate stood silent for a few moments, then repeated after him the 23rd Psalm...
...Calm anxious hearts, if blue the star...
Nobody was more surprised than Kongsgaard himself. Although born in Kongsberg, Norway, birthplace of a long list of ski-jumping greats (including the Ruud brothers, Birger, Sigmund and Asbjörn), the 6-ft.-11 Norwegian does not take his skiing with professional seriousness. At 26, he is more anxious about getting good engineering marks at the University of Idaho, where he is an exchange student. Says Sverre, shrugging matter-of-factly: "Some things we must do; I have to study. Skiing is a diversion...
...Power got to Italy last summer to play the leading part in 20th Century-Fox's Prince of Foxes, his appearance in Rome's fashionable, tree-lined Via Veneto had drawn swarms of gasping, pop-eyed Roman girls. His presence also drew some of the Roman aristocracy, anxious to get what it could from free-spending 20th Century-Fox. Before he knew it, handsome Tyrone found himself living in a house turned over to him by gregarious Countess Dorothy di Frasso, née Dorothy Taylor, of Manhattan, Hollywood and Mexico. Reported rental: $1,000 a month...