Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jerome W. Goodman's exploit is reminiscent of a similar expose conducted two years ago of the Communist-dominated youth festival in Budapest, Hungary. At that time the Red satellites were anxious to convert the free world, and entry was far easier...
Secretary at The Hague. According to his own recollection, Dulles lived "a curious sort of life at Princeton," playing a lot of whist, poker and chess. One of his professors, anxious to know whether his course was too difficult, asked Foster how much time he had to spend studying for it. "I exaggerated a bit," Dulles recalls, "and told him one hour a week. I had a knack for exams. I could read the course book the night before and remember it well enough to pass...
...Trinh Van Minh was in jail on charges of being a Viet Minh terrorist, but the Patriotic Youth Society put pressure on the Viet Nam government to set him free. French police warned that the Patriotic Youth Society was infiltrated by Communists, and dangerous. But the Viet Nam government, anxious to win the support of the Youth Society, released Trinh Van Minh...
...taking basic. That is why the $50-a-day experts must report back to Congress in three months, after working out a special system of military justice, of death and disability benefits and similar safeguards for the boys. They must also provide against the possibility that Congress, beset by anxious mothers, will water down the training so much that a UMTer will end up not a soldier but a Boy Scout in long pants. Already, the American Legion is urging that training be broken into two three-month periods, which the Army regards as disastrous to its training plans...
...hopeful that some day his country will be unified. "Then we will have a Korean type of government fashioned after the democratic nations. I am very anxious for a unified central government once more, and for U.N. help in our program. I hope many American young men and women will come in and help with our education, social, and missionary work," he commented...