Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on the four-hour meeting that he, Dean Bundy, and Donald C. McKay '28, professor of History, had with two high Army officials in Washington Tuesday, Dupuy said, "The Army is very anxious to try the new program experimentally. The only things holding it back are three problems which we are trying to solve...
...Provost last year, his departure was regretted in releases, editorials, and tributes--all with one common failing. They proceeded from the assumption that Buck was lost forever to future Harvard administrations. In the unerring logic of retrospect, this pessimism was unwarranted: the new President and Dean were understandably anxious lest Buck's proven capabilities languish. And Mr. Buck, being Mr. Buck, could not refuse an opportunity to serve...
Such a G.O.P. reliance on slogans and catchwords is disturbing, said Stevenson, in these troubled and anxious times...
Actually, I'm not very anxious to collect. For years now I have been able to state, with quiet dignity, that TIME magazine owes me money. In fact, I have unfailingly so stated whenever the name of the magazine has been mentioned. Listing TIME among my accounts receivable is an asset out of all proportion to the amount of money involved, particularly since I always neglect to mention...
...USSR will show definite indications of good faith on these issues, the new proposal holds the possibility for actual disarmament gains. But the United States must not be so anxious to find merit in the Soviet plan that it becomes tangled in a web of fruitless argument and delay. Should this happen the hopeful steps made with the "atoms for peace" program will be lost in the storms of debate...