Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only slightly in total yardage gained; it made four more first downs. But the over anxious Blues made several costly mistakes. didn...
...barely got to bed in the Jones cottage on the edge of the golf course, when he was rolled out by another telegram from Harry Truman. The President, anxious that there be "an orderly transfer of the business of the Executive Branch of the Government," invited Ike to come to the White House "to discuss the problems of this transition period . . ." Next day Eisenhower accepted Truman's invitation, but proposed that the meeting should not be held until the week beginning Nov. 17, "because I obviously require a reasonable time for conversations and conferences leading up to the designation...
Bonn officials, anxious to convince the Allies that Germany cannot afford to shoulder a larger proportion of the West's planned defense budget, make much of the workers' poverty. Reporting last week to OEEC, they carefully explained that the Federal Republic is burdened with 1) 10,000,000 Soviet-zone refugees; 2) three occupation armies; 3) an $822 million reparations debt to the Jews; 4) an annual expense of $150 million to sustain West Berlin. Yet, as the nervous French and British often point out, the Ruhr's burgeoning capacity is more than enough to take care...
...held at 98 ft., failed on his first try; the pressure dislodged his mask. After a half-hour rest, he went over the side again, close to the measuring cable. Down he went, while photographers with special equipment recorded the descent. After a long minute and 17 seconds, while anxious officials scanned the choppy water, Bucher bobbed to the surface, beaming in triumph. Aloft he held a cork marker he had pulled from the cable at the new record mark...
Just as candidly, the defendants told the court why they had been so anxious to get rid of the boss: Jones, a great whisky salesman (he built Old Schenley's sales in Boston by passing out Blarney-stone rings to barkeeps as a sales incentive), had begun drinking so heavily that clients were complaining, and the agency had lost three big accounts. Moreover, the defendants charged that Jones paid $400 a month to two of his sisters for "premium ideas" which were seldom used by the agency, and $8,000 a year to a brother, Alfred Jones...