Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What took place in six tense hours in Warsaw last week was an open defiance of the Kremlin, not by the oppressed people of Poland, but by their Communist rulers, who in an anxious testing moment acted as Poles first and dutiful Communists second. And for the first time in eleven hard years of Communist rule, these Communist rulers-tough, unloved Marxists-found themselves national heroes to the Poles...
...year 1839, the Orleans "Citizen King," Louis Philippe, anxious to curry favor with his nation's snootier aristocrats, who generally held a low opinion of him, offered to display the armorial bearings of anyone able to provide proof of an ancestor who had fought in the Crusades. Within a year Versailles was overflowing with applicants, all of whom bore ancient documents to attest their claims...
Watching Chrysler's struggles, Detroit's automen are almost as anxious for success as the company itself. For one thing, topflight competition has always resulted in a bigger overall auto market. For another, both Ford and General Motors are worried about monopoly charges by the Justice Department if Chrysler's percentage of auto sales should slip. Chrysler is determined to set their minds at ease. Growls blunt-talking Edgar C. Row, former boss of Chrysler Corp. of Canada, who took over the No. 2 spot under Tex Colbert last July: "From now on, every s.o.b. who sells...
Just south of Naples, where most people don't wear shoes or brassieres, is a timeless little town inexplicably concerned with the manufacture of fire-works. Most Italian villages are anxious to marry off their maidens handsomely and most Italian loafers spend much of their time standing in the sun holding up the local church's sturdy stone walls; in these two respects, this village and these loafers don't seem very different. In their midst, however, is an unlucky young man just returned from military service, pursued mercilessly by the cackling village wench. His mother and her father...
Rattigan's symbol for this oppressive and even anxious loneliness is the separate dining room tables of an English residential hotel. In each of the two plays a man and a woman who have rejected each other, but yet cannot stand the separate tables, find each other once again. Meanwhile, other characters who for various reasons do manage to live alone are seated at other single tables, serving as contrasts and catalysts to the central figures...