Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, we got in early on the train and came out here. When General Doolittle didn't find us at the station, he jumped into a cab and came on out to see us all. When Dad and Mother came to Washington to see me, Dad was anxious to meet Jimmy. I knew he was busy, but I called his office at the War Department and asked if my father could come down there to see him. Hell, he came out here to meet them...
...Ambassador in Washington, blue-eyed, balding little Gaston Henry-Haye. The State Department waited for M. Henry-Haye to come after his passport, finally dispatched George T. Summerlin, Chief of the Division of Protocol, to the handsome, police-guarded French Embassy. For him to give the documents to the anxious, worried envoy took only a moment...
Next to Navy and Notre Dame, Army points to its traditional game with the Crimson much the same as the Crimson points to Dartmouth next to Yale and Princeton. This year Army is even more anxious to score a victory, for it has not won in the Stadium since 1938, when it defeated Harvard on a last minute touchdown...
...proposed measure. As more and more specialized units are set up for the 7,500,000 men expected in the Army by spring, the radius of the dry area will be practically nation-wide. Congressional support should be comfortably abundant since Congress can well use a palliative for anxious mothers. The timing, the phrasing, and the scope of this amendment shows that its proponents have lost none of their parliamentary skill and knack for careful planning...
News that Tolstoy's War and Peace was to be filmed drew cries of anxious alarm from such Britons as H. G. Wells, Compton Mackenzie, Eric Linklater, and produced in the London Times a letter: "With dismay we have heard that it is to be made into a cinematograph film. . . We would ask what degree of supervision, and by whom, is to be exercised. . . ." Promptly came the answer from Sir Alexander Korda, who snickered and rumbled in rich Magyarish English: "This Victorian phrase, 'with dismay' and 'cinematograph film' just slays me. You would think...