Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist -turned -book -peddler sat uneasily before a Washington microphone. Reason for Earl Browder's discomfort: a battery of four newsmen, a little less than friendly, a little more than anxious to interview him on Mutual's Meet the Press program...
Next week, Tanglewood and its neighboring villages of Lenox and Stockbridge will be crammed with visitors anxious to hear what the rehearsing was about. They will hear the 110-man Boston Symphony Orchestra in nine concerts. U.S. premieres: Dmitri Shostakovich's new and brief (25-minute) Ninth Symphony, which Koussevitzky enthusiastically describes as "absolutely classic in form until sometimes it is very near to Haydn," and Peter Grimes, a widely touted opera in English by England's Benjamin Britten, commissioned by Koussevitzky and first played in London in 1945. The student production will be conducted by Leonard Bernstein...
Many a chain store, anxious to cash in on good will rather than quick profits, tried to hold the line. In the Midwest the giant Kroger chain (2,688 stores) boosted its prices on meat and butter only the amount of the lost Government subsidies: 7? a Ib. on beef, 15? on butter. But Kroger's able, friendly President Joseph B. Hall sadly admitted that the company has taken heavy losses in these items to hold the line even this much. It was also having a hard time replacing its depleted stocks at ceiling prices. Unless there was overall...
...pages of the Atlantic. In 1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles ran serially in Harper's Bazar (then a different magazine, both in spelling and in spirit, from what it is now), and this too proved shocking to what J. Henry Harper described as "a number of anxious mothers." But Tess, quite apart from its notoriety, was a success. It established Hardy's transatlantic reputation...
Droves of veteran students will put a new strain on these facilities during the next four years. Durant is frankly anxious about this period of overerowdedness, and even the Corporation seems aware of the problem. And while the Corporation consults no one, Durant will consult with Durant until a sound, hard-headed, and thoroughly safe solution is reached...