Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Telling Off Stalin. It was a fine, organ-like performance. But by this point, the newsmen were anxious to get back to the breathtaking disclosure that Truman had once, by ultimatum, told off Stalin and well-nigh carried the country into war with Russia. Had the ultimatum been published before? The President said no, but it is in the record. When was the ultimatum delivered? The President first said 1945. After a whispered consultation with Press Secretary Joe Short, he agreed that maybe it was 1946. But the dates were not important, said Harry Truman. The facts were that...
...smashed and burned (TIME, April 28), prison officials surrendered on all the mutineers' demands (including a liberalized parole system, dismissal of brutal guards, no retaliation for the riot). But the convicts held out for two more days, quibbling over details and assurances, glorying in the publicity and the anxious discomfort of officials-and knifing and roughing four convicts who wanted to call it quits, while 35 homosexual convicts ran wild through the cell block...
...Conservative Methodists are anxious to curb the unofficial Methodist Federation for Social Action, which has long taken an indulgent attitude toward Communism...
Rain has kept the club inactive since Thursday. Williams, particularly, is anxious to work out, in order to get into shape to play against the Tigers on Wednesday--Ted Williams...
...cocky and confident. But after a few weeks on the Greenville (Miss.) Class C farm club, Infielder Stanky was not so sure he wanted to be a major leaguer after all. Homesick and desperately unhappy, he wrote to his parents for money to come home. After ten anxious days he got a terse refusal from his mother. The letter ended: "We don't want any quitters in our family...