Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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England, represented especially by Churchill and Eden, is genuinely anxious for a strong world government, with the United States closely integrated. But their misjudged fear of isolationist sentiment here has forced the halfway proposals so far made he feels. That sentiment, of course, is still unfortunately strong both in the country at large and in Congress, but recent measures such as the Hatch and Gillette bills show a strong will for decisive steps to be taken...
...Army reached Berlin tomorrow, most diplomats, from Herbert Hoover to Henry Wallace and back would be anxious to see the wave of Comrades recede from Unter den Linden as soon as possible. But how far back do they hope and expect a victory-flushed Red Army to go? If not all the way back, what is to become of Poland's claim for her pre-war eastern boundary? To date this is the most perplexing boundary problem facing the United Nations. Aside from the claims and counterclaims of the Polish government in exile and the master in the Kremlin, little...
...equally unfortunate. Alarm in the New Zealand House of Representatives over such bases forced Prime Minister Fraser to declare formally that he believed President Roosevelt "incapable of a mean action." And German propagandists utilized Knox's statement to such good effect that Summer Welles was required to reassure anxious Latin Americans that the United States did not purpose to infringe their territory or sovereignty. The proponents of the American-Eagle-On-High were playing right into Herr Hitler's hands...
Most intractable of all orchestral instruments, the oboe keeps all its players anxious. Their worries are perhaps responsible for the legend that oboists inevitably go crazy. The silvery, reedy beauty of fine oboe tone is won only by the most skillful and unrelenting war against squeaks. In this war no one is more skillful than Marcel Tabuteau. This grey-haired, brawny, 55-year-old Frenchman earns about $300 a week as the star of the Philadelphia Orchestra's unsurpassed wood winds...
Meanwhile, at Radcliffe-glutted Harvard, vague rumblings were heard against the modern a draft-wolding female. Last week many a draft-anxious, Hanford-barried 'undergraduate sighed for the by-gone one of delicate feminiuity, wished mightily for a return to normaley in their traditional stamping ground...