Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Taruc surrendered voluntarily and amicably to his emissaries last May, talk of a deal has persisted: the Philippine government seemed almost as anxious as Taruc to stop the costly bloodletting. Despite Taruc's acknowledged involvement in killing, the government had not asked the death sentence, but it had plainly expected a lifetime jail sentence. "I am shocked," said President Ramon Magsaysay. "For the No. 1 Communist of all to get such a light sentence is a mockery of justice." Magsaysay forthwith ordered his legal aides to 1) appeal the light sentence, 2) press murder charges against Taruc...
...trade specialists are generally relaxed about the Russian fair displays. U.S. businessmen see little value in exhibiting in, say, Indonesia, which suffers from a lack of foreign exchange and a bewilderment of trade controls. Said one expert: "A foreigner owning a factory built around American equipment isn't anxious to install Russian equipment, because the Russians haven't yet proven themselves on performance or maintenance like the Americans have...
Each nation talked of alternatives. The time for reappraisal was at hand. There would be hurried attempts to shore up Chancellor Adenauer, whose devotion to the West had been rebuffed at tremendous cost to his own prestige at home. The U.S. and Winston Churchill were still anxious to have German arms by whatever speedy way could now be found. But it would be harder than before to persuade a powerful and rejected Germany to accept the restrictions on its rearmament that everybody still thinks are necessary...
Next day Mendès plunged all of France into one of the most turbulent weeks in the history of the Fourth Republic. Official Paris was in an uproar, with ministers scurrying, newspapers trumpeting, Parliament fragmenting into anxious little knots of excited, gossipy Deputies. The Premier was peevish. To his bitterly divided Cabinet (12 against, 13 for EDC), he reported sourly that France had been "dragged through the mud" at Brussels. This was a foretaste, Mendès said, of how EDC would work: instead of France controlling Germany, Brussels had shown that Benelux and Italy would "gang up" with...
...band of anxious engineers clambered onto a floating dock in San-Diego Bay recently to watch the newest U.S. Navy flying boat, out for its first water trial; as a photographer snapped away, the plane's bow gaped open like the mouth of a giant whale, revealing an enormous cavern for cargo. The So-ton craft, pictures of which were released last week, was the R3Y-2 "Flying LST," built for beach-assault operations by General Dynamics' Convair division. To pull away from a beach or dock the pilot,simply reverses propellers; the ship needs...