Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anxious Addict...
Nonetheless, Smith managed to stave off a final vote. Then he made some anxious telephone calls to Dulles. The result: when the committee was called back into session, Dulles and Under Secretary Bedell Smith, although thoroughly busy with Geneva, were both present to tell why they objected to Knowland's amendment. The reason was simple: it would tie their hands too closely...
...Mitchell's request, Goldberg called Oak Ridge to sound out Elwood Swisher, president of the striking C.I.O. Gas. Coke & Chemical Workers Union. Next day while the fact-finding board hurriedly began hearings and anxious supervisors kept K-25 bubbling. Swisher flew to Washington to see C.I.O. President Walter Reuther. At 7:30 p.m., Reuther called Mitchell for a conference; they met at the Labor Department. Until 2 a.m. Mitchell listened to the union's aims and grievances (poor housing and community facilities, bad relations with K-25's operator, Union Carbide & Carbon). Next day he checked...
This, said Sir Winston Churchill to the House of Commons, is not a threat to Ally France, but an assist to another ally, Germany. "The Federal Republic of Germany is willing and anxious to cooperate with the Western world, and it is right that she should do so on a footing of equality...
...time Willie was three, father and son were playing catch. At six, Willie was so anxious to get ahead with his baseball that he could not wait for the old man to come home. Afternoons, on the ball diamond across the street, he played a strenuous and lonely game: he would toss a ball in the air and run it down, or hit out a fungo, then tear around the bases and slide ferociously into home...