Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come Up & See Me. Four nights after the killing, Reporter Link interviewed Peter Petrakos, an intimate of Bernie Shelton, in a Peoria hotel room. Also present were "Big Earl" Shelton and two of his henchmen. Earl was anxious to know who had killed Bernie and Carl (who had been murdered a year ago), and whether his number was up too. Link and the Post-Dispatch had a bigger interest in the case: they wanted to find out if Illinois gamblers had killed Bernie and if they had connections with Governor Green's machine...
Explanation of this amazing circumstance is simple. A local candy maker, anxious to find just the right evocative name to describe his latest confection, was swept away by a zeal for imagery; "Pom Poms" are the result, now on sale at your favorite drug or cigar store...
...hundred thousand moviegoers packed into 20 Moscow theaters in four days to see the new film success, Young Guard, with music by Shostakovich. Seventeen theaters in Leningrad were also jammed with fans, anxious to see the dramatization of Alexander Fadeev's best selling novel about Russian partisan heroes. Though the music wasn't what drew most of the crowds, Shostakovich could read his press notices and see, with a practiced eye, just where he stood...
...four sets, the oldster (27) and the youngster (20) slammed the ball back & forth, with the gallery decidedly pro-Pan-cho. But experience was on Schroeder's side. His overhead was deadly; Pancho's was erratic. The young champ, anxious to show off before the home crowd, tried too hard to make flamboyant returns of Schroeder's big serve. Schroeder won, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, 10-8. When someone suggested to Gonzales that he had been careless with his game at crucial moments, he answered: "But it's got to be careless. That...
Life With Father is not merely the title of a play; it is fast becoming the right name for a whole period-the days when pounds were made of gold and fathers loomed over their children like oaks. Now that the oak is no more, a whole generation seems anxious to recall the vast, umbrella-like image of father in his prime...