Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...historic change of heart. In 1946 Britain offered Burma self-government "either within or without the British Commonwealth." Burma's stars at last seemed favorable: 31-year-old General Aung San, commander of the Burmese Defense army, agreed to lead the Cabinet; 39-year-old U Nu, anxious to return to his writing, became Speaker of Burma's brand-new Constituent Assembly...
...down together. The neutralists are by definition unwilling to join a bloc. Nehru does not want to become a partner with Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with the Japanese; neither are the Australians. The U.S. is not anxious to bind itself to defend precarious and far-off regimes on Asia's southern shores. France wants to include Indo-China in the area protected by the alliance; Britain says it is already too late. Out of such a conglomeration is apt to come a maximum of rhetoric...
...easy to guess what their hosts will be anxious to show them . . . Mr. Attlee. Mr. Bevan and their companions will visit "model villages" and "mutual aid" farms . . . they will relax beside peaceful lakes, and they will be shown films depicting 'the regime's progress and its peaceful intentions...
...legalistic account of the gas ovens and crematoria of the concentration camps. As a matter of courtesy, Russell sent the completed man uscript to his boss, 72-year-old Lord Simonds, the Lord High Chancellor. Instead of winning the expected perfunctory approval, his book became the subject of anxious discussion in the British Cabinet...
Human Wall. The great flood began late last spring, when a Siberian cold front collided with a moisture-laden warm-air mass moving inland from the Southeast Pacific. Red China, anxious to maintain its pose of bland invincibility before the world at Geneva, said nothing about its flood so long as it could conceal it. and later tried to minimize...