Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a no-defeat record behind him, Allen was understandably anxious to duck out before something might come along to spoil it. But for all his hurry, he left behind at least one work for the new Republican Congress to remember him by-a bill to simplify and reorganize the multi-unit RFC, strip it of its wartime and emergency powers, and provide for its eventual liquidation...
Signs of the times as indicated in an informal poll among newsstand vendors in the Houses and the Union show that among University students, upperclassmen accomplish more extra-curricular reading in newspapers and magazines than do the hardworking Yardlings, anxious to create favorable initial impressions on the Dean's Office...
...days of maneuvering, Lewis had talked to men like his old friend & enemy Harry Moses, of U.S. Steel, and Cyrus Eaton, of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad; it was gradually borne in on him that Harry Truman might be calling his bluff. Eaton was anxious to bring about negotiations; Moses was willing-on his terms. But Harry Truman was adamant. And now the impossible had happened. Lewis had actually been convicted of contempt. Horatius heard the tramp of the Tuscans' feet...
...student playgoer and his companion aren't particularly anxious to see a third-hand version of a second-rate Broadway production in which the favorite college wit unsuccessfully attempts an imitation of Monty Wooley or Victor Moore. Nor are they cheered to the point of unharnessing two dollars to listen to a short-haired female with a ereased face speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success...
...Anxious to focus community-wide attention upon the "grave need for maintaining rent controls" and the importance of an articulate public opinion on that issue, the Harvard and Cambridge chapters of the American Veterans Committee will sponsor a mass rent control rally Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Rindge Technical High School auditorium...