Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season, but has a number of very fine players, from whom much may be heard in later years. In the line Captain Tom Healy and Carrick Heiskell have been outstanding both offensively and defensively, while the swivel-hipped runs of Quarterback Torbert Macdonald have caused the opposition many anxious moments...
...came out in the leading questions of her fashionable London counsel, Norman Birkett. To 19 of his 31. soothing and descriptive queries, she had only to answer, "Yes." She also answered, "It did," "No," and "Yes I did." Broadly speaking, the case against Mr. Simpson who, like any husband anxious to spare his wife's name, had committed the technical adultery necessary for a divorce in England, was summed up in the following letter signed by Mrs. Simpson which was introduced last week in evidence...
Ever since Irak achieved "nationhood" by ceasing to be a British Mandate and entering the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932), London has been anxious lest this key Kingdom on the route to India take the pan-Arab bit in its teeth and kick over the traces. These fears were sharpened by the sudden death of Irak's King Feisal, who had always been able to see things more or less from British angles (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). Last week his young son King Ghazi, educated in British boys' schools, was abruptly mastered by pan-Arab chiefs...
...general's belly just before the crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture to be brandished, and never-say-die men to be put to the acid test. The looker-on is guaranteed his full share of anxious gulps by this simple, undiluted tale of thrills. The lofty, chiselled beauty of Madeleinie Carrol is a bit surpassed by the whirlwind nature of the plot, but the masculinity of Gary Cooper is brought to the fore, from the scene where he takes off his shirt, to that where...
...more likely to continue to write books with the greatest authority on the World Court than to sit on it as a Justice. His election, hailed as democratic, also marked an ebb in the Court's prestige to a level at which bigwig statesmen are not so anxious to sit in judgment at The Hague as they once were...