Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick was off on another global tour in his newest plane, a surplus Flying Fortress with machine guns removed. Objective this time: darkest Europe. Before leaving, he reassured all potentially anxious friends: "One could make a million flights before three of the four engines would fail simultaneously ... If all [five] of the crew should become incapacitated, I can hold the plane on an even keel and hit Europe somewhere...
...average graduate thinks that the differences between Russia and the U.S. can be reconciled without war, and is anxious to see the United Nations strengthened. And he feels that all Americans-"Negroes, Jews, foreign-born and others" -deserve an even break (80% voted...
...first clear news which came out of the pandemonium of Philadelphia this week, the U.S. took heart and hope. So did the anxious world. For the big news from Philadelphia was that the Republican Party, which already controlled Congress and by all the signs would soon have the presidency as well, would not retreat from internationalism...
...Just as anxious as Ike was the New York Times: "If this country during the next four years returns to the Chinese Wall philosophy for which so many Republicans have been shouting-and in Congress, voting-we face tragedy...
...major seemed willing to learn. ("You mean a Republic is not [necessarily] a Democracy? That is a new historical revelation to me.") But he was most anxious for a chapter on "The Inevitability of Wars in the Capitalist System." All the other powers protested hotly. Said the U.S. delegate (jovial, white-haired Harry R. Wyman of the Phoenix Junior College in Arizona): "It isn't our purpose here to turn prophet . . ." Replied Major Bagrov: "I didn't mean that at all ... and General Stalin has announced that with a definite will on both sides, both the Socialist...