Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Majority or Minority. To anxious Arabs and Jews this development held important corollaries which Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin candidly underlined in London. Said he: "We never undertook to establish a Jewish state [in Palestine], but we did undertake to establish a Jewish home, and that we must fulfill." Bevin had taken his stand on a literal interpretation of the 1917 Balfour Declaration ("The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people . . ."). Said an Arab spokesman in Cairo: "We are happy, but we can't afford to show...
...Little Two? Between them, Churchill and Bevin sped Attlee to Washington with the clearest statement yet of British purposes. The British Government (but not the entire British public) was willing to pay high for a new Big Two-the U.S. and Britain. Furthermore, the British Government was willing, even anxious, to be the junior partner in the alliance...
...glossy fiction lead jumpy, exciting lives. They carry out hush-hush Government missions and make big money as writers and artists. They drink lots of highballs, chain-smoke, worry about themselves and talk to each other in subtle banalities to cover their emotional high tension. They love with anxious violence-usually two people at the same time, until the last chapter. And mostly they are terribly good, terribly sensitive but terribly confused...
...Global Granary? The surplus-producing nations wanted to empower F.A.O. to distribute surplus foods where they were most needed and thus support the producer's market prices. Anxious to become self-sufficient, the importing nations were leary of direct F.A.O. intervention, tried to put it in an advisory role...
...fullness of his first day of freedom, the sights of a new-found world fascinated him. Anxious not to fritter away the $10 Lawyer John Crankshaw had given him, he lunched in a "nice little restaurant." He walked and walked, stopped to listen whenever he heard a radio, but feared police would make him move on. Said he, apprehensively: "I've had enough trouble so I didn't stay listening too long...