Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through a University Post Office near the gate at Wigglesworth. One of the more unusual tasks that is under Buildings and Grounds is the ringing of the bell in Memorial Church for one minute every hour. And though there are complaints at times about the noise, there are always anxious calls on the rare instances when the bell has failed to ring...
...attack on-the FHA mounted, a boomerang effect appeared as a dangerous possibility. Many sensed that if the political moralizing were allowed to get out of hand, the agency might be completely destroyed. To complicate matters, the savings and loan associations, long-time enemies of FHA, seemed anxious to cash in on the public indignation and press for abolition of the service. As competitors of the federal government in the mortgage insurance business, they have every reason to hasten...
...stumbling block to the program was the attitude of the United States. At first anxious to bolster sagging manpower lists with refugees, Congress' attitude cooled toward the IRO when the post war economy adjusted. Arguing that the care of the remaining refugees could be undertaken by individual countries, Congress squeezed the organization out of existence in 1951 by cutting off financial assistance. Now the UN has back-tracked to the days of the League, with no power or physical resources to provide for the world wide refugee problem...
After this experience it was evident that morning prayers were not necessary to keep order. But many still were anxious to influence as many undergraduates as possible to attend chapel services even if requirements were to be lifted. A plan was proposed whereby chapel would be an unprepared elective in order to increase its appeal. In opposing this idea one person sarcastically wrote, "Only those studious minded young men who go to college for work or are conscientiously opposed to set times for prayer would be likely to choose mathematics or German instead of prayers; and these probably have least...
...Radio City rehearsal studio last week, a 15-year-old girl in a bright-beaded dress sang a ragged version of Secret Love and then went into a tap dance that showed more vigor than precision. When she had finished, she stood, thin-armed and anxious, staring toward the control room where Director Lloyd Marx and Associate Producer Wanda Ellis were judging the auditions for the 1,000th performance of the Original Amateur Hour...