Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mobridge agreed. Five other towns, anxious for a new tourist attraction, clamored for Sitting Bull's bones too. Montana's Senator James E. Murray argued that the chief should be reburied at Montana's Custer Battlefield Cemetery, near the remains of General Custer.* And North Dakota, aroused to civic pride after 63 years, suddenly decided it prized Sitting Bull after all. The old chief's granddaughters-Mrs. Nancy Kicking Bear, Mrs. Angelique LaPointe and Mrs. Sarah Little Spotted Horse-had all agreed to Grey Eagle's project, but North Dakota's Governor Norman Brunsdale...
...correct, it helps explain why 1) the doctors' purge was called off by Beria with such violent emphasis on false charges and "impermissible means" of extracting confessions; 2) why the glorification of Stalin's name has abruptly declined in Russian papers; 3) why Russia is so anxious for a relaxing peace offensive. Old Fox. In the clash of bigger battalions fighting for naked power, cunning old Aunty Molly-though nominally one of the Big Three-is not one to get in the way. "You don't seize power by mobilizing Foreign Office functionaries," scoffs an Italian...
...along with Smith in the outfield. Junior Bob Gremp, who didn't play at all last season will open in left and bat fifth, and sophomore Don Butters a Natick High teammate of Clasby, will play right. Butters is a catcher, but with Clasby behind the plate, McInnis is anxious to get Butters in the outfield...
Right now McInnis is planning to use two different outfields, one for a right hander and another for lefties. Against a righty, Chauncey, Bob Smith, and either Butters or Clasby will start. Smith was one of the strongest hitters on the last varsity, while McInnis is anxious to try the strong-armed Butters in right. Clasby, Butters, and Bob Gremp will start against lefty pitching, with Gremp also slated for substitute work at first base...
Since Dibelius championed German unification, the Reds were anxious to use him for propaganda purposes-as they have successfully used Niemoller, a man of integrity and bad judgment who is now Germany's leading "neutralist." Dibelius, though much courted, turned courteously from the Red blandishments. Eight years-ago he quietly joined Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party...