Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jockeying for position with Senior Democrat Truman began at the Dearborn Street station, where Stevenson was anxious to be photographed with Harry while Candidate Averell Harriman was still back in New York. But, as photographers tried to line up the ex-President and the leading candidate, India Edwards, an old Truman friend and a queen bee of the Harriman forces, jumped in between. When Stevenson went this-a-way, so did India. When Stevenson went thataway, so did India. Finally, Adlai executed a clever flanking movement and came up alongside Truman while the cameras clicked away. Almost unnoticed...
...five-year plan. Even more disturbing to India is the prospect that if Nasser were to fall, Egypt (and the canal) might fall into the hands of an orthodox Moslem government that would ally itself with India's bitter enemy, Moslem Pakistan. Nehru is, therefore, almost as anxious as Eden to ensure that Egypt does not win unfettered control of the canal. But unlike Eden, Nehru wants no overthrow of Nasser. Nasser, unique among Moslem leaders, is on better terms with New Delhi than with Karachi. Nehru's solution: public denunciation of Britain and France, accompanied...
...moment of high drama came almost at the end. Even the correspondents sucked in their breath as the Chicago Daily News's William McGaffin raised an issue never before put to a President in public. Many of Ike's old friends in Gettysburg, said McGaffin, although anxious to return him to office, "feel you have done enough for the nation, and they are afraid that you won't last out; they are afraid you won't live for another four years...
Paying a Debt. "They're suspicious of us culturally." he says, referring to people he met on his recent ANTA tour of the Far East. "But at the same time they're pathetically anxious to hear what we have to offer." In Japan in particular. Istomin found, audiences were attracted by the openness and spontaneity of Western music...
...Enginemaker Curtiss the big bait was the promise of some $500 million in new defense contracts from the Pentagon. Up to now, failure of such contracts to come through had been the major stumbling block. Though the Administration was anxious to save Studebaker, it was worried about the political effects of such a rescue operation. But now both companies have solid promises of contracts, spread over several years...