Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morley: ... A sweet and dangerous opiate is Memory ... the bliss of anxious thought...
...upshot was that three detectives and a patrolman were dismissed, five police officers, including Chief Culligan, were suspended "pending further developments," grand jury and bar association inquiries were started and anyone in St. Paul who had recently had any shady dealings with the police found himself sitting on the anxious bench...
...whole thing is on the knees of the gods," sighed Mr. Eden as he returned to London. Anxious friends thought the old Etonian looked as tired as after his encounters with Hitler and Stalin which put him to bed for a month (TIME, April 1). Just before leaving Paris last week he summed up his conversations with Premier Laval despondently thus: "Oh, we discussed what should be done next, now that what has been done has been done...
...that point Secretary Roper, who was anxious to get the charade over with so the Senate would confirm his fellow-South Carolinian J. Monroe Johnson as the new Assistant Secretary of Commerce, took the stand. To him his ousted assistant was "of an exceedingly suspicious temperament," responsible for "a veritable log jam" in the Department. Said...
...after 5 o'clock Oklahoma's Senator Thomas made the point of no quorum. While the roll was being called Huey Long slipped out of the Chamber for brief relief. When he came back he asked for an opportunity to retire gracefully: "Mr. President, I am not anxious to proceed too long. If we can get a unanimous-consent agreement to vote by noon tomorrow on the motion I have made I shall have no objection to voting at that time...