Word: anxious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with an urge to prove their courage by risking their necks. Only in 1948, when the Winter Olympics were held at St. Moritz, did Cresta-type sledding get worldwide recognition as part ot the games. But year after year the international brigade returns. There are always a few novices anxious to earn the red-and-white badge which signifies that they have conquered Cresta and entitles them to a 20% discount at the Kulm Hotel bar. Lately, the Cresta roster has been larded with the names of such middle-class sportsmen as Bibbia, come to compete with nobility...
First to be delicately unwrapped was the complication of Israel's troops in Egypt (see below). If this could be done, the next step was to get to the inner mechanism of trouble: the problem of the Suez and of the Soviet presence in Egypt. It was anxious work, and the ticking went on loud and clear...
...final few minutes saw a wild race for the century mark. With two and one-half minutes left, the score read 97-78. Then the Crimson, over-anxious to shoot, lost control of the ball several times. Bill Schreiber dunked in a bucket, to raise the total...
...weeks ago, as the target date for adoption of the "Kashmir Constitution" rapidly approached, Pakistani Foreign Minister Malik Firoz Khan Noon appealed to the U.N. to head off Indian annexation of Kashmir. Pakistan, Noon declared, was anxious to see a U.N.-organized plebiscite policed by U.N. troops, but India had repeatedly blocked plebiscite proposals "by insisting on some new condition or raising irrelevant issues." Since 1949, noted Noon, "eleven proposals for settling the differences [have been] put forward. Pakistan accepted each; India rejected every...
...Aramco is always obsequiously anxious not to jeopardize a deal which is one of oildom's most profitable. At 40? a barrel (v. $1.03 in the U.S.), Arabian Oil is one of the world's cheapest to produce, sells for $1.90 on the world market. From the beginning, Aramco's operations have been an exemplary display of enlightened management. In 1950, seeing the handwriting writ large across the Middle East by Britain's gathering troubles in Iran, Aramco increased the Saud share in the oil profits to 50%, the Middle East's first...