Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action in the Plaza. Before the magnificent grey stone mansion that is Buenos Aires' Military Club, a throng of some 50,000 anxious citizens filled fashionable Plaza San Martin. Inside, the fate of the nation was being resolved by the military and a few civilians. Hopefully, the crowd outside applauded when such moderates as ex-Foreign Minister General Orlando Peluffo and Navy Minister Hector Vernengo Lima marched...
Most of the physicists who forged scientific weapons with such spectacular success are anxious to get back to their true love: theoretical work. But Professor Rabi is not sure that they will be encouraged (or allowed) to do so. Once dismissed as misty dreamers, they are now being courted with alarmingly possessive ardor...
...haste. Lieut. General John R. Hodge and the military governor, Major General Archibald V. Arnold, had to staff it with men who, like themselves, are combat officers and not proconsuls. They are shorthanded-Arnold has only 109 men for the whole military government. Men already punchy from combat (and anxious to go home) are driving themselves 15 hours a day and more, trying to get a country of 25 million people rolling again. Before it is done, the job will take experts...
Director Gregory Ratoff played ineffectual hide-&-seek with Miss Bennett in the murkier shadows of the soundstage, but generally had to wind up the game with a shrug: "All right, dollink, ve do it your vay." Now & again anxious, imperious Producer Bennett asked fellow-producer Darryl F. Zanuck to look at the rushes; but it is reasonable to suspect that Mr. Zanuck did not take too much responsibility for the picture...
...first time in three years, fight talk of the war will revert to anxious shouts of encouragement as Harvard and Yale formally resume their 64-year-old gridiron series...