Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Striking the keynote of the Service, President Conant closed his address and the Commencement for the Class of 1943 with the words, "Gentlemen, with anxious pride, Harvard awaits the day of yours return...
...psychopath with normal intelligence anxious to get into the Army may, in his few minutes with a psychiatrist at the induction center, fool him completely. But draft-board members in a small community may know that he is a heavy drinker, or has attacked girls, or never keeps a job, or is a thief. In the Army such a man will sometimes win a medal through sheer love of action. More often he is the man who is A.W.O.L. With his quick suggestibility he spreads rumors. He may even sell out to the enemy...
Even before the war such freedom did not exist. One big reason was sheer military necessity, which made nations anxious to control the air above them. But another reason was simply trade jealousy. Thus, U.S. service to Alaska is dependent upon Ottawa's permission to fly over Canadian soil. Early transatlantic services dickered with Portugal for landing rights at the Azores. In the South Pacific Australia-bound Pan American was blocked 1,300 miles away at New Zealand until after Pearl Harbor. So far the U.S. has failed to permit TACA and British West Indian Airways to make scheduled...
...State in French Africa." Last week, using the more modest title of High Commissioner, he said: "The people of North Africa feel that America will liberate them from the Germans. They believe the coming of the Americans will mean a happier life for them. Our armed forces are anxious to fight against the Germans again. But they do not want to fight under conditions that prevailed in 1940. They need tanks, planes and modern equipment. It would be in the best interests of the United Nations to give the weapons President Roosevelt said he would deliver...
...There is no question that the French Army and Navy are anxious to wage war again on the side of the United Nations-on one condition...