Word: anxious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Anxious Calls. The word from the State Department was not at all what Smith had expected: Dulles found the Knowland amendment unacceptable. In view of that Smith suggested a delay in the committee vote. California's Knowland, who operates with the finesse of a Patton tank, roared his protest: the Senate is coequal with the executive branch and he was tired of giving in to the State Department...
...Czechoslovak border, jounced a U.S. Army weapons carrier one evening last week, bearing seven off-duty medics of the 186th Field Artillery Batallion. On the main street the truck halted, while Captain Jack M. Davis cautiously asked townspeople about the exact location of the border; he was anxious not to wander over...
...passionate discussion came next day. Usually, unarmed strays from either side are herded back without argument. But this time a Czech major said that his government would swap the Americans for three Czechoslovak forestry workers who had fled to Germany seeking asylum on June 30. The Communists appeared hotly anxious to get the three Czechs back...
...airlines are not anxious to switch to jets, since they have just invested some $250 million for new fleets of prop-driven planes. But with Boeing's 707, the pressure is on: the first big U.S. airline to buy the 707 will force the others to follow. Bill Allen is betting that he gets that crucial order. While his new jet will cost upwards of $4,000,000 v. $1,850,000 for a Douglas DC-7. Allen thinks the 707 will pay off. Its greater size and speed will enable it to do 2½ times the work...
...shocking conclusion that there were "a lot of people brighter than I was, so I made up my mind to work all the harder to make up for it." When he went looking for a job with the Seattle law firm of Donworth, Todd & Higgins, he was so anxious to make good that he offered to work for $50 a month...