Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some nations, notably India, were clearly willing and anxious to get Red China into the U.N. Others, notably Great Britain, flirted with the hope that admission to the U.N. might somehow reform the Chinese Communists and usher in an era of "peaceful coexistence." Negotiating a defeat in Indo-China, France might be willing to let the Communists trade their way into the world organization. The U.S. harbors no such fears, hopes or illusions. In Washington last week, the key men in the U.S. Government were building a great wall to keep Red China from (as Warren Austin once...
There is a good reason for the burst of speed on Capitol Hill: this is an election year, and the politicians are anxious to get home. Majority Leader Bill Knowland has set July 31 as the target date for adjournment, and after last week's accomplishments, the prospects of hitting it look bright...
...national bank for a check of the serial numbers. Back came word that this series was put into circulation in March 1954. At that time, Sunde was already in jail. Now it was the prosecutor's turn to laugh. As he reconstructed the affair, the Soviet embassy, anxious to help Comrade Sunde, had taken the passports and police cards he had given the Russian agent, had stuffed them into an envelope with the money, planted the lot in Sunde's flat, and then sent him word of what they had done. But the comrades made one slight mistake...
Strategic Aim. The rebel leader at first seemed cold and reserved, but he warmed up in a hurry when asked about his objectives. "Primarily," he answered, "to throw Communism out of Guatemala . . . All the Guatemalan people are anxious for our arrival. But we must be prepared for every action of the enemy...
...nose itself-a prominent organ-stands out from the face with an inquiring, anxious air, as though it were sniffing for some good thing in the wind; the eyes, dark, full and deeply set, are penetrating, but full of an expression which almost amounts to tenderness . . . One would say that, although the mouth was made to enjoy a joke, it could also utter the severest sentence which the head could dictate, but that Mr. Lincoln would be ever more willing to temper justice with mercy . . ." That is the way Foreign Correspondent William Howard Russell sketched President Lincoln...