Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anxious to serve this drink to our guests...
Like many a fresh young officer before and since, Hale longed for battle but saw very little action. His regiment was moved from Massachusetts to Manhattan just before the British took Long Island. General Washington, anxious for information about the plans and strength of the enemy, asked General William Heath to establish a "channel of information" behind the British lines. Hale, by now a captain, volunteered for the job. "I am fully sensible of the consequences of discovery and capture in such a situation," he told Captain William Hull, a classmate at Yale and a fellow officer. "I wish...
...Anxious to prove his patient negotiating skill in domestic as well as foreign difficulties, Sir Anthony hoped to settle the strike without using his full special powers. He had most of the nation with him: Labor leaders joined the Tory Cabinet in urging the striking union to return. "This country is run on the basis that people will be reasonable," wrote the Laborite Daily Herald. "We advise the strikers not to prolong the agony...
Adenauer had been genuinely (and needlessly) alarmed when President Eisenhower at his last press conference took up, without specifically condemning, the notion of neutral armed states. Reassurances flowed in from Washington last week, but der Alte was still anxious to forestall any Big Four notion that German unity might be bought with German neutrality. In this he was supported by his Socialist opponents, who developed a belated suspicion of neutrality as soon as German neutrality became remotely a possibility. "The establishment of a belt of neutral but armed states in [Europe]," said Adenauer, "would mean the end of West European...
...pumps, found a congenial subject in Hamlet. Honoré Daumier brought his genius for social satire to a masterpiece in the same genre: Don Quixote. And Edouard Manet made a lithograph after Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven that would have delighted would-be-Parisian Poe's anxious heart...