Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside & Out. When he sat down, the Socialists went after him hot & heavy, anxious to fix his party with the onus of a peace treaty they could fight at the polls 17 months from now. Adenauer's own Centrist coalition fought him too. In the end, they tacked on to his rearmament resolution four sticky conditions...
...HAVEN, Feb. 16--If anyone had predicted that Yale was going to beat the Crimson track team by over 30 points here today, he would have been besieged by anxious bettors. But the Elis did just that as they scored their 19th straight indoor track win, 69 2/3 to 39 1/2. The Blue freshmen also won, 58 1/2 to 50 1/2, on the strength of a two-mile relay...
...Attorney General and President would give him "a completely free hand" for "the biggest service I ever had to perform." He added: "My investigations . . . will be nonpolitical . . . Let the chips fall where they may ... I am an inveterate and implacable opponent of ... the spoils system . . . I am ... just as anxious to clear the clouds that may be over any agency because of the misconduct of one or a limited number of employees...
...linking the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to enable all but the biggest deep-sea vessels to sail upstream into North America's industrial heartland. This project has been pressed and attacked on both sides of the border for more than 50 years. Canada has been anxious to build it; all U.S. Presidents from Coolidge to Truman have advocated it (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But the U.S. Congress, hobbled by minority interests (railroads and East Coast shippers), has never given its consent. Canada, feeling her newly won strength, has now announced that if Congress does not agree...
Indeed, quite apart from such an enterprise, the University's need for a theatre has long been recognized. Harvard is the only great university without such a theatre. The faculty is anxious to encourage those many undergraduate organizations that regularly produce plays; their efforts are now greatly hampered by the total lack of acceptable facilities...