Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnston set out to block Kimbel's confirmation in the Senate. He named nine persons who "desired" to testify against the nomination. Most of the anxious witnesses were members of South Carolina's stagnant old Republican organization which Kimbel has been trying to clean up. But despite three telegrams apiece from the Foreign Relations Committee, all nine failed to appear...
...each child entered the room, Dr. Salk's secretary handed him a test tube bearing the youngster's name and control numbers. Time and again, in answer to an anxious "Wotta they gonna do?" she explained the procedure softly and reassuringly. Working in twos, nurses slipped a needle into a vein in the hollow of the child's elbow (what doctors call the antecubital fossa) and snapped a vacuum seal. Immediately the tube began to fill with blood. Most of the youngsters watched with impersonal detachment, and girls were no more upset by the sight of blood...
...employs no dietitians. Instead, Tucker himself holds the title of "steward," and as such serves the same function--making out the menus. Tucker emphatically denies that he is the dietitian or that there are any "female dietitians" in the College at all, and perhaps through modesty, is not particularly anxious to be known as the man responsible for the menu...
While a score of student organizations prepared for possible surprise visits from the 1952 Democratic presidential nominee, Cambridge and University police made plans to handle overflow crowds at Sanders Theatre tonight. Anxious for a seat, one hardy Boston lass camped out on the steps of Memorial Hall to be sure of getting first place in today's rush...
...January 1952, De Lattre died of cancer. His successor, General Raoul Salan, was anxious to reduce casualties and so were his Cabinet superiors in Paris. Salan embalmed 140,000 men in 5,000,000 tons of concrete-some 10,000 forts, emplacements and bunkers up and down Indo-China. The Communists could not get at him. but neither could he get at the Communists. In May 1953, General Henri-Eugene Navarre took over. His plan: increase Bao Dai's army from 200,000 to 500,000 so it could watch the quiet areas while he, Navarre, went after...