Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are a number of outfits, service teams especially, who are anxious for games, Getchell continued. Several aggregations who asked for games this spring had to be refused because of the shortness of the diamond season. Two games a week will probably occupy the summer Stahlmen...
...Harvard in the summer will find no lack of opportunity to demonstrate their skill, for the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Crimson Network plan to continue production on schedules only slightly altered. Both organizations await further word concerning the forthcoming training programs, with the Network perhaps the more anxious about the existence of a nightly listening audience...
Three days later the Secretary announced sinkings in April were much lower than in March. But he hastily warned that "too much significance" should not be attached to this. Thus the fog was kept draped over the Atlantic and the anxious citizens...
...down the U.S. last week, in large cities and small towns, many a Roman Catholic priest mailed or took similar tidings to anxious families of men missing in action. Sample message: "The Apostolic Delegate of the Holy See has been requested by radiogram from the Cardinal Secretary of State, to inform the John A. Doe family that Corporal John B. Doe is a prisoner of war in Camp...
...tell. Senator Wheeler also doesn't like the way this war is being conducted. Damning the Administration wherever possible, Senator Wheeler doesn't think that Congress should let the Army decide whether it needs to draft fathers for the service. Like Herbert Hoover, the Senator isn't too anxious to invade Europe to reach the Nazis. After all, Japan is our first enemy, and, moreover, Japan doesn't happen to be fighting Russia. After we defeat the Japs, well--the United Nations might decide to negotiate a peace with Hitler...