Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once laid down while acting as the unofficial Mayor of Harlem. Bojangles' formula: "Do the best you can with what you've got . . . and get along with the white folks." Jackie had no desire to be a martyr for his race; he was just a young fellow anxious to make a living as a ballplayer. Though he barely knew Joe Louis, he sought him out for advice. He got an earful which boiled down to three words: "Don't get cocky...
With the solemnity of Supreme Court justices, twelve wine-tasters gathered last week in a private room at the California State Fair in Sacramento to choose the best California wines. They had an anxious audience. Since 1769, when Fra Junipero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan, planted the first wine grapes at the Mission of San Diego, viticulture had grown until it is California's biggest agricultural industry, with an investment of $475 million. Last year, California produced 87% of all the wine drunk...
...people had been killed, 400 injured, in 24 hours, Gandhi had announced that he would not eat until "sanity returned to Calcutta." (Aside he said: "As usual I shall permit myself to add salt and soda bicarbonate to the water I may wish to drink during the fast.") Anxious Calcuttans read about the Mahatma's pulse rate, his blood pressure (both diastolic and systolic) and the acetone and albumen in his urine; they stopped rioting...
...Wife for Nazaro. Now the Jews of San Nicandro are anxious to go to Palestine. Isolated as they are, they are threatened with extinction. There have been no conversions for several years, and Donato Manduzio is a greyheaded man. Marriage presents an almost insurmountable difficulty for them. Last year one of the group's elders wrote to the president of a Jewish refugee organization: "A young man, Nazaro di Salva, born in 1925, wants to take a wife, but in our community there is none. I therefore apply to you as president of orphans and refugees, that you might...
...which included Boeki Kodan (the Japanese Government's Public Trade Co.), Boeki Cho (its Board of Trade), and, finally, SCAP. Then they found-as they had been warned by SCAP (TIME, June 16)-that the quantity, quality, and variety of Japanese goods were small. But the Japanese were anxious to improve them...