Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite this, U.S. home-fronters had remained the best housed, best clothed and best fed people in the world. But U.S. basic resources had suffered what might be an irreparable drain. Said an anxious Mead Committee report fortnight ago: war has left the U.S. with only enough oil for twelve years (at present production rates), enough iron ore for eight years, a seriously depleted timber supply...
Some of the laymen were no less anxious than the professionals: Riveter Audrey Korhel, who had come all the way from Seattle to see the sight; Minneapolis Amateur Astronomer W. D. Morgan, who had waited all his life to see a full eclipse; Washington Schoolteacher Wallace Goodlow, who had been making plans for the trip for 13 years...
...André Respond, anxious to hush up local gossip about Edda's high living, told the press: "Rumors that she escaped one night after her father's death and returned to the clinic intoxicated are absolutely untrue. Nevertheless, Madame Ciano occasionally does behave in a rather bizarre way. For instance, she likes to walk around barefoot like a gipsy and occasionally at night she will jump from her window into the garden for a stroll in the park and forest...
...confident man in the White House, cool in a blue seersucker suit and soft-collared white shirt, was optimistic. The Russians, he said, are just as anxious to get along with the U.S. as the U.S. is to get along with them, and he thought they had shown it very conclusively. He enumerated: ¶Harry Hopkins' successful mission to Moscow...
...some time will remain-frozen out of the British market by exchange restrictions. For Britain, in order to rebuild at home and recover her export markets, intends to use her limited dollar resources almost entirely to buy vital food and essential raw materials. To U.S. firms anxious not to lose their British customers to British competitors, the alternative is to manufacture in Britain...