Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed interim statement, already drafted. There he argued not with Republican members, but with Missouri's presidency-bound Democrat Stuart Symington, who nagged insistently for a hard-swinging attack on the Administration for its defense shortcomings. At length, Johnson (well aware that his own committee was no more anxious than the Administration for defense spending in the last "economy" session of Congress) carried the day-and happily so, for his report was both accurate and constructive...
Police found a letter to the commissioner of police. Clé was anxious that the commissioner understand why he had wrecked his apartment. He had not acted from remorse, sadism or simple vandalism, wrote Clé, but "because I do not want to leave anything to our French government, which is leading the nation to its ruin. . . I believe it is better to die quickly, rather than suffer slow death in the chaos of modern democracy...
...Touggourt and widened 120 miles of narrow-gauge railway to transport the oil from Touggourt to the coast. One barrel of oil delivered to France in this cumbersome fashion costs an estimated ten times as much as a barrel imported some 6,000 miles from Texas-but the French, anxious to create a "psychological shock" at home, considered it cheap at the price...
...Israeli ships to the Gulf of Aqaba. Today UNEF soldiers watch as some six vessels a month push up the gulf to unload in the small Israeli port of Elath. But neither the Israelis (who are grateful) nor the Arabs (who do nothing to prevent the traffic) are anxious to call attention to the situation...
...Across the Table) with a beat so limp that she suggests a woman in search of a paycheck instead of a passion. In her better moments (Alone Too Long, Can't We Be Friends?), her foggy, appealing voice is that of a nice girl who is very, very anxious to set her boudoir in order...