Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy, said he, is anxious to play a larger part in the war. "All of the Italian fleet is at the disposal of the Allies. Italian aviators are ready to fly, if planes are given them. About 50,000 Italian merchant seamen could be used on United Nations ships." But what Italy wants most, said Signor Tarchiani, is the chance to build a democratic government of its own. He added hopefully: "I am sure to find here the greatest sympathy and comprehension for Italy...
...Working Class: the report that Russia intended to use the Free Germany Committee to create a pro-Russian German state was a "myth" based on "poisoned rumors." "From nothing has been erected a structure of lies. . . . The Soviet Union, much more than any other country . . . is anxious to obtain a solution . . . making . . . a revival of German aggression impossible. . . . Common . . . prejudice against the Soviet Union . . . is behind the readiness of . . . 'European experts' to imagine and spread all kinds of tales about Soviet policy, and the readiness of many editors to publish these tales without a twinge of conscience...
Then, practically in the same breath, Paris and Brussels, with an anxious eye on Moscow, hastened to add that nothing they had done involved the creation of a western bloc...
...Subtle Anxiety. For some, the waiting is anxious and filled, perhaps, with a few misgivings. After all, how can one remember everything about a man who has been gone so long? In Manhattan a young wife prepared to welcome her husband home on furlough. The apartment was all shipshape, with flowers on the mantel. The dinner would be perfect, down to the dry martinis. But the first thing the husband said was: "Darling, don't you remember I never drink martinis...
...Most anxious of newsmen returning to Manila was the U.P.'s Frank Hewlett, whose wife had stayed behind as a nurse when he left for Bataan and Corregidor with General MacArthur on New Year's Eve, 1941. Self-effacing Reporter Hewlett, in the middle of a long dispatch, reported simply: "I found [my wife] today, recovering from a nervous breakdown. . . . Her weight had dropped to 80 pounds. But I found her in excellent spirits. It was a reunion after years about which I do not want to think...