Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a member of the U.S. Senate Atomic Energy Committee placed an unfair but inevitable interpretation on the Canadian case: "A number of scientists have been straining to have the atomic secrets given to Russia. They are so anxious about it that Russia probably can get all the information she wants." If patriotic scientists resented the Senator's implication, they could partly blame the Russian practice of making use of thousands of stooges in other countries...
...Bucharest, Andrica had put a notice in several Rumanian papers that he was anxious to meet relatives and friends of Cleveland people. That started a forlorn parade to his room at the Athenee Palace Hotel. In a fortnight he plodded through 675 interviews, and the pattern was the same as in Belgrade and Prague, Nürnberg and Trieste. Wept hollow-cheeked Bertha Lutwak: "Tell my uncle in Cincinnati I am in great need." Attorney Dumitru Ellenes had a sad message for his brother-in-law: "Our family was deported to Austria; only our sister Helen returned alive...
Walter Huston is always a likable and skillful actor, and Apple of His Eye is a harmless enough little play-as rural and homey, at its best, as an old, dented tin dipper. But its shy and anxious courtship makes a long and languid evening. Farmer Stover shows twice the indecision of Hamlet without any of the excitement. The apple of his eye is a decent, agreeable girl but singularly unobservant. And the worried relatives, gabby neighbors and drawling farm help that punctuate-and protract-the evening are all stock-comedy figures...
...those who see little connection between his Benediction and its title, Lipchitz simply recalls the day on the road south from Paris when he made his first sketch of the harpist: "I was very mad, very anxious. This [sculpture] was a little song for Paris what I had to sing. It is like somebody goes to sleep. But sleep would bring cauchemar [nightmare], so I sing him a song that everything will come out all right. Maybe it is something that will make me feel better...
...operation, "I was talking to President Roosevelt ... I advised him to make the same speech he had made a year ago. . . . [That was] a grandiose idea ... a compensatory mechanism at a time when my ego was crushed. It signified ... a healthy part of my personality immunizing me against anxious anticipation...