Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason," he asked significantly, "why Canada and the U.S. should not concert arrangements for joint defense? . . . We are becoming increasingly aware in Canada of our significance as an arctic power, and the effect of this on our relations with both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. We are most anxious to develop the economic . . . resources of our north country . . One of the great sources of uranium in the world is well within the Canadian Arctic Circle. In this arctic development, however, we desire the closest possible cooperation with...
...custodian of the nation's meager supply of streptomycin was on the hot seat. To Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer* it seemed that everyone wanted the powerful new drug-foreign nations; Congressmen (for their constituents); distraught fathers & mothers, anxious to try anything that might cure a sick child. Newspapers were featuring swallow-hard stories about babies wasting away for want of streptomycin...
...some sweet cider and good apples. Conversation ranged widely: religion, poetry, schoolteaching, genius, societies, etc. . . . [With another student] discussed the Episcopal Church . . . preaching, prostitution, and a variety of other subjects. . . . Found the North College semi-joe [outhouse] all in a blaze, surrounded by students apparently not very anxious...
...George J. Bell '48, of the HOC, said last night, "There may be a game yet." He added patronizingly that the men will bat left-handed and run backwards, if they play at all. Radcliffe, anxious to repeat on the diamond their supremacy-of-the-sex demonstration in last year's crew race, said the teams were to meet in the 'Cliffe quad and carry on from there...
...Derby Day, he would probably be up a tree again, watching Arden's cerise, blue & white colors-and taking anxious side glances at such able rivals as speedy, pint-sized Rippey, big, brown Spy Song and the Calumet Farm's In Earnest (trained by Ben Jones, who delights in running an underdog to victory). And no one knew better than Tom Smith that an unsung hero might well cross the line ahead of them...