Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anxious to promote his Cause at every opportunity, Chafee has served on many private and public bodies investigating freedom of the press and speech. In the late twenties he acted as counsel to the National Committee on Law Observance and Enforcement. Form 1943 to '47 Chafee, along with Jacques Maritain, Harold Lasswell, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Rheinhold Niebuhr, and Archibald MacLeish, served on the Freedom of the Press Committee, a private group sponsored by Henry Luce to investigating the extent of freedom of the press in the U.S. When the Committee started investigating Luce, the publisher stopped attending meetings and thereafter...
...will have to show itself willing to initiate significant measures to release the cramp in East-West commerce. The latest "relaxation" is nothing but a scrap thrown to clamoring critics in an effort to pacify them. Much more will have to be done before the Administration can pose as anxious to thaw frozen channels of trade...
...piano has its anxious note. Some 50 winters have weathered Cagney hard, and he begins to wonder if his filly won't "stray off" when the "grass . . . gets a little too thin around here." She says she won't, but then they quarrel about the "hangin' fever" that sets in whenever Cagney sees a rustler. The girl runs away with a stable boy (Don Dubbins), but she soon comes back-it's such fun to bang on that piano. "Don't worry," Cagney comforts the boy, "a fellow doesn't die from his first...
...refusing to uphold its contempt citation against Leon J. Kamin. The bitterness with which McCarthy accused the Judge of a lack of objectivity in "communist" cases, however, made it seem likely that the Wisconsin Senator was concerned more with his own dignity than that of the Senate, and was anxious to avoid a setback similar to the one he suffered at Kamin's trial...
...Westminster, how will the issues that concern Britain weigh with them, and vice versa? Confessed one M.P.: "For a number of years, maybe quite a few, there would be inevitably a sense of unreality about the functions they would discharge as members of this House." No one seemed anxious to discuss the possibility of applications from 20 other British colonies. Gambia, a small British outpost in West Africa, has already announced that it, too, would like to send representatives to Westminster...