Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pretty soon some of our jeeps raced back from the direction which the tanks had taken. As they went by, the occupants yelled something to a group by the house next door, and those men, to my astonishment, suddenly started running toward the beach, looking back in anxious alarm at the road...
Since its conversion last July, the Club has been particularly anxious to get officers' wives to use the Holyoke Street building, and many Navy wives, first women to have full run of the Club since its founding in 1795, are now serving on the various entertainment committees of the Center...
...Anxious Seat. From the Jap point of view the situation could never have looked more dangerous than it did last week. Three months ago the Jap, giving ground slowly in New Guinea, still held the initiative in the Solomons. He was in position to attack; the U.S. was on the defence. The capture of Munda reversed that...
...lines, also anxious to fly the Caribbean, were left out in the cold because all their planes were even more desperately needed on continental schedules...
...Anxious whites were relieved to learn that the ruckus was no native uprising but a peaceful "march-to-work" protest against a one-penny (2?) hike in bus fares. Owners of the private bus fleet from Alexandria, ten miles north of Johannesburg and home of many of the city's Negro day laborers, pleaded greater costs, upped the one-way fare from four-to fivepence; a total of twopence a day. Negroes, earning from $12 to $20 monthly, had boycotted the busses...