Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the leaders of France and Italy sit in a castle on the shore of Lake Maggiore, scratch their heads, and wonder what, if anything, can be done to curb Adolf Hitler, Great Britain keeps an anxious world guessing. A week ago Stresa took on the light of a New Jerusalem in men's minds. It seemed that for the first time in history Europe had stopped being Europe and was putting her cards down flat on the table for a definite showdown...
...Thursday at Stresa, Italy, the heads of the English, French and Italian nations will gather for a conference similar to that which Sir Edward Grey was so anxious to call during the crucial days of 1914. A brief appraisal of the present international situation will not be amiss...
...respected Brussels broker with a solid clientele is meticulous M. Verviers. Last week his office was crowded with anxious Belgians including several War widows in trailing weeds...
Before those two developments, he could see little further profit in remaining in Washington. He had even announced that he was going home to run for Governor next year. Then he changed his tune: He would run again for Senator because other Senators seemed too anxious to be rid of him; he might even run for President. Senator Long had suddenly found reason to take his sideline seriously...
...expedition set out from Addis Ababa in March 1928, reached its destination three and a half months later. The Danakils, especially those who had no feathers in their hair, gave them many an anxious moment. (A feather stuck in a Danakil topknot shows that a year has not elapsed since he killed a man.) Three of the expedition's carriers strayed too far from camp, never came back. Hottest day's temperature recorded was 168°F. Even in the shade it was unwise to touch a rifle-barrel. Because the temperature of the human body is only...