Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought I'd take a holiday. Weeks stretched into months and months into years. ... I didn't like Hollywood. It is a dull and enervating place. And the girls are not half so lovely as they are cracked up to be. They have a hard and anxious look about them." What he did like was the mountaineers of West Virginia, whose reticence and modesty remind him of people in remote parts of Ireland. Even better, Fitzgerald likes to stroll around Harlem. "The Negroes there seem to live so casual a life. And there is much in a casual...
Sweden, one anxious eye on expanding Russia, the other on the future, last week took steps to cement a trading bloc of small northwestern European nations...
...Vannevar Bush, general of the U.S. army of war scientists (TIME, April 3), last week was one of the most anxious of the war. It looked as if the under-26 draft might take a vital section of his army away from him. As a good soldier, Dr. Bush made no public outcry. But outcry there was aplenty from the nation's scientists...
...anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart...
...Division" (voting lineup). In chattering, uneasy groups, under the eyes of party whips, M.P.'s filed from the House toward the two "lobbies" (voting rooms). There they flowed through the Aye or No doors, gave their votes, passed back to the House. When all were reassembled, they turned anxious eyes toward the main entrance. There, by old custom, the voting tellers for the winning side enter first...