Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school, and received solemn nods from the Old Boys on the Opposition benches. Were we to have a 'kind of NKVD or OGPU system in our public offices'? No, the House murmured quietly, we were not. The prefects, on both sides of the House, were only too anxious to deal tidily with a discreditable story which involved the honor of the school." As Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary in the former Labor government, explained: "Five governments in all were involved...
...Cover-Up." The Laborites were just as anxious to avoid any hint of "McCarthyism." Said Herbert Morrison, during whose tenure the pair escaped: "After all, the noblest band of men in history had their Judas ... If they had been arrested and ultimately found innocent, that would have brought discredit ..." Only a few were so rude as to be blunt. The truth is, snapped Laborite Alfred Robens, that there was "a close circle of 'coverup' for one's friends [in the Foreign Office], How can it be that a couple of drunks, a couple of homosexuals well known...
...Chama was every bit as anxious as his owner. At the start, he broke and forced a recall. Next time the field got off ragged but right. Prendase moved steadily to the front. By the time the leaders pounded into the stretch it was a three-horse race; Prendase was still on top, going all-out to hold off El Chama and Social Outcast...
Last January energetic French High Commissioner Roland Pré instituted some reforms of his own. Anxious to cut down the top-heavy local administrative setup in the Cameroons, he began looking for likely natives to serve in local municipal offices. When he canvassed the natives of Foumban on their choice for mayor, the answer was a landslide for Sultan Seydou...
...Ford Foundation, the independent philanthropic giant created by the Ford family, has long been anxious to sell at least 15% of its immense Ford stock holdings to diversify its investments. When the Government last week decided that the Foundation, as a tax-exempt organization, would not have to pay a 26% capital-gains tax on the sale, one of the last barriers to the stock sale was removed. However, the Foundation's 3,089,908 Ford shares (88% of all Ford stock) do not include voting shares, which are owned exclusively by the Ford family. Foundation trustees thought that...