Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dose. Looking around for assistants to help him in the cure, Morrison found most New Orleans businessmen painfully aware of the illness, anxious to help, and even ready to accept the cost in time and taxes of the medicines he prescribed. The New Orleans antidote...
...houses, it has spurred an upgrading in the entire industry. Many low-cost housebuilders have been forced to switch over to bigger houses in the $20,000 to $30,000 price field. Those who have made the shift report that there is a strong and growing market from families anxious to upgrade their standard of living by trading in their old houses for something better...
...French colons in Algeria such talk is treason. Close to the war, the colons are disgusted by the crise de conscience, say that the National Liberation Front, far from being anxious for a deal, is stepping up its terror campaign with the hope of making the French give up Algeria in despair...
Count to 20. Giles's ruling passed the buck to the umpires, who are used to such chores. On top of everything else this season, they have had to start acting like stop watches. Anxious to speed up the game, the rule writers had a winter meeting and decreed that whenever the bases are empty a pitcher must pitch within 20 seconds after receiving the ball. What is more, a batter may not leave the batter's box after the pitcher is ready to throw...
...cleared 13 ft. with a Fiberglas pole, said that at 25 the new pole would have pushed him to 16 ft. ¶ Russia's Vassily Smyslov, an aspiring concert baritone, needed only 22 games to depose nine-year World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, 12½-9½. Anxious to meet all challengers, Smyslov expects to face no females. Says he: "They could not stay silent for five hours straight...