Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still anxious to have them back. This week they learned that their homeland no longer cared what they did. The U.S. Defense Department ordered the 21 men dishonorably discharged-and it was made clear that the outcasts would be in deep trouble if they did come home...
...crazy?" As her father, the local cop, Robert Keith sometimes seems to worry more about his part than his inability to cope with the disturbance. But he does well as a man who can see a problem yet is unable to do anything about it. Local profiteers anxious to make an extra buck and vigilante-minded citizens aggravate the situation so that it is impossible to place the blame entirely on the motor club...
...amendment, then, attacks two of the Constitution's most valuable principles, its distribution of authority and its balance of power. Why are Bricker & Company so anxious to junk the wisdom of those upon whose shades they so frequently call? They are afraid, apparently, that mistakes will be made, that some future President, Senate, House, and electorate will depart from the political ideas which they deem immutable. Aside from the arrogance of this stand, its rationale, that paralysis is better than risk of error, is appalling. It reflects the same mistrust of power that today makes France the picture of chaos...
...said a cynical French diplomat. "But they won't want it to end." He was undoubtedly right: the longer the Russians can keep the Foreign Ministers in session in Berlin, the longer France would delay getting down to voting on the European Army. But John Foster Dulles is anxious to get Molotov to the table, to see whether anything is on his mind, so Washington talked Paris and London into conceding...
Second-place Ford has spent $60 million on retooling to give its 1954 cars more powerful engines and sleeker lines. Ford was the only automaker besides G.M. to gain more of the market last year (it gained 2.1%), and is anxious to increase its 25.3% share in 1954. Ford has set aside $500 million for expansion, much of it to boost Ford production up to Chevrolet's 35,000 weekly level. Said Henry Ford II: "We hope we can be first in 1954." While he looks for about a 10% drop in overall auto output this year, Ford foresees...