Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles began seeking informal agreements. In Iraq he found the Foreign Ministry anxious for U.S. military assistance. In Pakistan he was asked for arms. In Ankara he discovered the Turks worrying about their eastern flank. Dulles concluded that help must not be thrust on those who do not want it, but concentrated on "those countries which want strength." No longer would the U.S. have to wait on the least interested nations...
Having thrown him out, his anxious parents gave him $2,000 to make a start in life and sent him a liberal allowance. Harlow got a $215-a-month apartment on Manhattan's East End Avenue, and invited a dark, handsome young man friend named Dennis Wepman to live with him. But after a while, his parents cut the allowance in another attempt to force...
Last summer, chafing over Willie's industry, fellow miners told him that he should take his days off like everyone else. "We fought for holidays and every-one should take them," they said. Anxious to please, Willie agreed to take a vacation signed up for a bowling tournament and got his vacation pay in advance. Then his bosses, shorthanded, asked him to change his mind...
Without Pay. Still anxious to please, Willie put off the vacation and went to work at double time. Last week the National Union of Mineworkers threatened to call a strike of 900 colliery workers unless Willie took his vacation. So Willie did. He hoped that now everyone would be satisfied, but it did seem a bit hard on the kids, who face a lean Christmas because their father, who has long since spent the money he got last summer, will get no pay for the two weeks...
...Governor Murray went on the radio to ask the public to subscribe $100,000 immediately to meet pressing needs, and by last week, $50,000 had been pledged or was in hand. Gilcrease himself plans to move from Tulsa to Claremore, to serve as director of the new museum. Anxious only to keep his collection together, Gilcrease was delighted with the prospect. Said he: "I set up [the collection] for the benefit of the people. It has value only when held intact for . . . the people...