Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval officer was modest, soft-spoken Captain Edward Ellsberg, salvager of the submarine S-51 off Block Island in 1926. Ellsberg had arrived in Massaua in March. Principal item of wreckage in the harbor which Allied officials were anxious to recover was a floating dock capable of handling 10,000-ton cruisers. The British said recovery was impossible. But 50-year-old Captain Ellsberg put on a diving suit and took a look. The dock, he discovered, had eight watertight compartments, into each of which the Italians had dropped a 200-lb. bomb. Undiscouraged, Ellsberg went to work with meager...
...much of what materials there is to be fought over, 2) how much their own suppliers' really minimum needs are, 3) what really happens to their allotments once they are fed to the factories. Ever since war production began in a big way, every contractor has been so anxious to be well-heeled with materials (and so sure of being shortchanged) that he has been inclined to ask for more than he needed at any one moment. There is no reason to believe Purp can stop this overestimating, since contractors can always alibi later that it was impossible...
...impressive total collectively, are not being used most effectively for the war effort. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps are enticing him into the various Reserve plans with every lure known to the press-agent's art. In the shuffie, the physically disqualified man and the co-ed, anxious to serve, have both been ignored. It will require little planning to turn the technical student's training towards the war. Instead, it is the liberal arts concentrator who remains most confused, sensing that something is wrong in simply pursuing a course in the arts until he reaches draft...
...Anxious to serve in the U.S. armed forces, Russian-born Count Oleg Loiewski Cassini, 29, Hollywood studio designer and husband of Cinemactress Gene Tierney, became a U.S. citizen. Said Actress Tierney, when questioned as a witness: "I know him to be the finest type of manhood...
...transmitter, turntable, mikes, etc. (purchased with money from a lottery) arrived on Kodiak Island. By January the station was on the air with what the Army calls "horse-blankets" (discs), strictly sweet music for the starved listeners. Soon Kodiakers were filing into the studio with their guitars, mandolins, fiddles, anxious to help...