Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the U.S. embassy's anxious counters, there is still a slight numerical majority for EDC in the French National Assembly. The difficulty is that a majority that could be put together to pass EDC is not a majority that could govern the country. There are two majorities in the chamber: one for internal policy, one for foreign policy. The Laniel government is a precarious internal majority, essentially a right-of-center group. The Socialists will not join it. On a vote for EDC, the Socialists would support Laniel, but the Gaullists would desert him. Without the Gaullists...
...however, that his comments of PM (Which he left because it "continuously yielded to communist pressure"), on the Hiss case ("I accept Chambers' basic account of events"), or on Henry Wallace (The Communists have taken a lot of credulous men for a ride. Wallace seemed anxious to step on the accelerater himself") did not greatly enrich the book, Much of the autobiography includes this interesting rambling of a mind that is sharp, and thrilled to be free...
After a perfunctory, surface investigation, the Administrative Board only too readily has handed the problem of ticket abuses down to the Faculty Committee on Athletics. It is important that this committee should not be similarly anxious to sloughs off a thorough examination of ticket ethics and practices. Equally important is the manner and tone of such an examination. The deans fear that football players and managers may have been scalping their complimentary and preferred football tickets. And it seems a realistic fear. Instead of taking active steps against repetition of these wrongs, however, the dean's office issued a great...
...church must face everywhere is nominal church membership. This is reflected in irregular church attendance, in infrequent communions, in perfunctory giving and in worldly living. Nearly one-half the people of the U.S. do not have so much as a nominal relationship to any religious body . . . We have become anxious and worried, the victims of our fears-our fear of war, of military service, of insecurity and of Communism...
...musical about the world's fifth largest library entitled, "There Are No Books in Widener." The main character was a soprano librarian who made a fortune selling out the stacks to a shady book worm in Central Square. The librarian then covered up the foul deed, warbling to anxious students that their book was "overdue to an officer...