Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boss's stern eyes swept the somewhat anxious group. "Which one of you sons of bitches," he demanded, "remarked that spring was here...
...many an engineer. As executive officer of the old National Emergency Council, he directed construction of the early stages of the Florida Ship Canal and, offhand, rebuilt hurricane-flattened Gainesville, Ga. He learned to think in terms of big projects, to get the loyalty of workers not too anxious to work, to pile into a job that looked too big, and reduce it to simplicity. His West Point training and Army experience kept him from going off the deep end of social experimentation with his civilian associates, but his efficiency made him many a potent New Deal friend...
...entering Freshman in the twenties found "college life" ample justification for getting a college education. The Freshman of the thirties was a more serious fellow, anxious to find in his courses the solution to the problems which beset his era. Towards the end of the decade he began to wonder whether that solution really existed. Now that war has climaxed the debacle, the Freshman of the forties is tempted to see in it the ultimate expression of his problems, and to feel that military victory is the final answer, military effort the final method. But the war is only...
Students are resigned, determined, hopeful and bitter, in that order, but with very, very little of the latter. They know they have a job to do. They are willing to give their lives. There is no evasion, no protest. They are anxious to get all the schooling they can; but if war intervenes, to get the fighting over with and get back to civilization and books. They have confidence, great confidence, in themselves and their pals, that they can take care of their country and themselves in battle...
Burly, redheaded Dr. Francis Parkman, 44, resigned as headmaster of Massachusetts' famed St. Mark's School to join the Army Air Corps. He was a Second Lieutenant of Marines in World War I, is the father of five children. A major in the Reserve Corps and anxious for active duty, New Jersey's ex-Governor Harold G. Hoffman took his second physical examination, awaited the verdict...