Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largely a matter of emphasis. Both lawyers pointed to the sheaf of treaties which nations had signed and sealed through the years, in the anxious hope of banning war. But Sir Hartley interpreted the treaties as laws that applied to individuals, even though everyone knew that they were not meant to be so applied...
After twelve weeks of horsetrading, the U.S. this week set out solid terms for a loan to Britain. Washington thought the British, anxious for dollars with which to reconvert their economy to peace, would accept. The terms...
...glass transom was covered with cardboard. Outside the grey-enameled door stood three husky sergeants at arms. Newsmen, bored yet anxious, lounged on the chintz-covered sofas, listening for sounds from behind the guarded door. Occasionally there were voices, strident and angry; then long stretches of muffled buzz-buzz. Finally there came a burst of applause and then, to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a full-throated rendition of Solidarity Forever...
Their empty desks pose a problem for War Secretary Patterson, who is also chafing, anxious to go (so is Navy Secretary Forrestal). To find successors, the civilian departments have to go out in the world and beg. There are few men of the caliber of Lovett and McCloy tempted by an assistant secretary's salary ($10,000); few feel any obligation, to serve in the War Department in peacetime...
...main characters are a squad of G.I.s, battle-weary from weeks of fighting at Cassino, war-weary from years of Army grind. The day they are to be sent back of the lines for a rest, the least popular of them gets trapped under enemy fire. Anxious as the others are to pull out, they are held back by some mystical emotion of comradeship and even disobey orders in an effort to rescue their...