Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nationalists retorted that the Communists intended to seize the fund for their party treasury, paying the displaced peasants in depreciated Communist currency and using the profit to buy arms. But the Nanking Government was so anxious to keep the Yellow River project alive that it offered to send a $5 billion down payment by UNRRA courier...
...Long Haired Southerner or Patronage Ouzel; the Snapping Southerner or Mississippi Valley Shrill; the rare Old Shaggy or Great Trumpeting Republican and a few aging Bald New Dealers. And, of course, there were droves of newly elected Mute Republicans, all harrumphing softly and rattling paper with an anxious air of authority...
...from groups with Communist backing. This is the pure pragmatic approach. It skirts the ethics and polities involved in current affairs and comes up with the only clear truth in a foggy picture--that Communists are unpopular in this country. Thus, if the organization is young (the AVC), or anxious to win votes in a real national election (the fledgling Americans for Democratic Action), the program has been: face the Reds, isolate them, eliminate them...
Words & Tools. Nowhere did the President seem more anxious to pass on the burden of decision than in his precipitous retreat from wartime controls. Said he of the economy in general: "Private enterprise must be given the greatest possible freedom" to continue the expansion of our economy." Said he of housing: "The primary responsibility to deliver housing at reasonable prices that veterans can afford rests with private industry and labor...
Coach Kopp's men will be anxious to prevent a repeat of the first performance when both teams hog-tied their opponents defensively. A fast break may perhaps be unveiled tonight by the Crimson in an effort to upset the shore patrollmen's tight formations...