Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieutenant Edward Hodnett, USNR, officer-in-charge of the V-12 Unit, in announcing the new program, said that the Committees would have as much leeway as Naval Regulations permit, and that he was anxious for V-12 men to participate in College activities as much as possible...
...perennial errand boy, three-time Governor A. (for Arthur) Harry Moore, a Hague henchman since 1913. As Hague's U.S. Senator in 1935, Harry Moore had voted against Social Security, giving his reason in the deathless phrase: "It will take the romance out of old age." Labor, anxious to team up with Frank Hague to help along the Term IV campaign next year, nevertheless balked at backing old A. Harry...
Many an Ally, remembering Darlanism in North Africa, was anxious over AMGOT. Some Britons were displeased with the choice of Major General Lord Rennell of Rodd as the real civil administrator of Sicily under General Alexander. A veteran diplomat, a banker and an Oxford Grouper Lord Rennell had been a friend of Italian big business, which backed Fascism. Said the New Statesman and Nation: "That he knows the country intimately may be conceded, but . . . will it be easy for groups which might organize a popular mass movement . . . to deal with...
...split, muddled desire to make a great picture and a great hit. It was a spectacular public demonstration of a fact often neglected in Hollywood-the fact that great entertainment depends upon some degree of good artistry, and that the effective functioning of artistry can be crippled by too anxious attention to entertainment...
...such feeding. When Tom got mad, his face got red and so did his stomach. (This happened when an officious clinic secretary angered him.) More than any other emotion, anxiety increased the amount of blood in the stomach membrane and the amount of acid secretion. When Tom was anxious (e.g., worry about his stepdaughter's illness and death), he had diarrhea and no appetite, and he was wakened in the night by acid juices escaping from his stomach. Though Tom did not want food when he was worried, the doctors found that, if he ate, his digestion rate...