Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neophyte? By last week South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes had been Secretary of State just two months. There were some who still felt a little anxious about the U.S. being represented-and among all those experienced foreigners-by such a comparative neophyte. (Actually, only Molotov has had more experience; the Messrs. Bevin, Bidault and Wrang Shi-chieh are almost equally new to their tasks.) Although he had guided foreign policy bills through the Senate for F.D.R., Jimmy Byrnes's political life had largely been spent on domestic affairs. He had gone to Europe a dozen or so times...
...solution seemed to lie in a U.S. loan of up to $3 billion, which the British would accept only if they had plenty of time to pay and if interest rates were low or merely nominal. The U.S., anxious to get partner Britain back on her feet, had conditions, too: 1) modification of Britain's pro-cartel policy; 2) scaling-down of Britain's debts by the countries of the sterling group; 3) relaxation of Empire trade preferences...
Aftereffects? Major General Leslie R. Groves and Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, military and scientific parents of the atom bomb, parried all questions about the bomb itself. But about its aftereffects they were anxious to talk. Data on Hiroshima and Nagasaki will not be complete until scientists now on the spot have finished their tests. But all three atomic explosions, said General Groves, were "comparable" in power. Important difference was that New Mexico's test bomb went off only 100 ft. above ground, those in Japan "much higher." Hence the effects of their blast, heat and radiation were spread much...
...such uneasy occasion Eichelberger's aide, Major Clyde Schuck, whispered from his foxhole, "General, are you all right?" Getting no answer, he repeated the question in an anxious shout. From Eichelberger's hideout near by came the rumble of the General's voice: "Clyde, my boy, I appreciate your interest, but when the little bastards are infiltrating, I'd just as soon you called...
...examiners recommended for Pan Am the plushiest passenger runs from the mainland to Honolulu. And in the South Pacific Pan Am will have the air lanes to itself until the anxious British, now flying a military route from San Diego to Australia, put in a commercial service...