Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anxious hours ticked away: lunch, just the Deweys together, in their five-bedroom suite at the Hotel Roosevelt; in the afternoon, a "thank you" meeting for 250 party leaders; dinner in an uptown apartment with six close friends. As the election returns began to pour into Republican National Headquarters at the Hotel Roosevelt, the crowds downstairs in the big ballroom were confident-many wore evening clothes, ready to go out and celebrate. But on the tenth floor, the Dewey party, isolated from press and public, listened tensely. The first tidings seemed "encouraging," but by 11:30 p.m. the news looked...
...call on the zombies?" From London came hints of more zombie trouble when Canada's turn comes to fight in the Pacific. Two of the Canadian Press's senior war correspondents - Ross Munro in Belgium and Douglas How in Italy - reported that "servicemen are anxious for assurance that Canada's home defense soldiers will be called upon to serve overseas when the European campaign ends...
...British move into Greece was political rather than military. Greece has long been a British sphere of influence and London was anxious to keep it so after the war. There was poetic justice in the return of the British for the redemption of Greece. In 1941 they had risked Egypt to aid the Greeks, lost 15,000 men in a hopeless, 24-day retreat. But the Greeks, who also fought bravely, have starved and died for three years. Resentment against British political policies has grown. Whether food and medicine would win them back was still uncertain...
Plagued by anxious wives and uniformed husbands, the Secretary of State for War, Sir James Grigg, told the House of Commons that it had been a mistake ever to let the committee's work become public knowledge. There the matter uneasily rested...
...Politics. FurtwĠngler was a man of idealism, deeply patriotic, with a mystical absorption in German culture. He believed that the Nazi movement was a troublesome but temporary phenomenon, and was anxious to do what he could to preserve German musical standards. He fancied that in staying in Germany, rather than going into exile, he would find ways, with art as his shield, of opposing the Nazis...