Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just behind the Hôtel de Ville a three-deep line of the helmeted garde mobile blocked the passage. As the marchers spread out into a formless crowd, a jauntily kepied high-ranking police officer held the anxious leaders in conversation. Then suddenly the big blue police vans roared down with reinforcements of police. Surrounded by hundreds of wellarmed, disciplined men, one thousand Algerians yielded and were trucked off to jail. Frisked (of knives, stilettos, pieces of steel) and fingerprinted for future reference, most were later released...
...President Odria make his unexpected gesture to APRA? Lima observers reasoned that: 1) he is genuinely anxious to run off a free election; and 2) having failed to form a coalition with Peru's right wing, he is now willing to dicker with the left for the votes he needs to elect a successor who will carry on his cherished economic program...
...White House and were quietly ushered into the President's office. After the men he had summoned gathered around his desk, the President made formal and final the commitment that they and millions of other people had at first hoped for and had then expected through many anxious weeks. The President told Vice President Richard Nixon, Presidential Aides Sherman Adams and Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, and Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall that he would accept a second term if the party and the people wanted...
...Anxious as they were to get out of the room to put the big news of the President's announcement on the wires, newsmen tried to get some kind of hint from the President. Had he consulted Nixon in his decision? "Oh, yes. I consulted Vice President Nixon all the time, and no later than, I think, yesterday afternoon...
Rose, Pete de Paolo, Lou Moore-not driving, but riding herd on an anxious manufacturer's best mechanics, coaching teams of professional drivers. Each was out to prove that the car he was handling was the nimblest and/or fastest on the road (leaving it to the auto industry's pitchmen to explain that added speed somehow means added safety...