Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Castroviejo at week's end examined Ortiz' eye, but remained prudently mum. Those sectors of the Argentine press which are desperately anxious to drag Argentina into the war hailed the doctor as a "mir-acle man." Finally the honest surgeon cried: "I'd like to get a change of scene, hide out in a nightclub somewhere, but even that's impossible here...
...Most anxious not to return (because of the bleak life in Germany) and most stuffy about arrangements were the Germans. In New York, where the Drottningholm was making ready to carry 940 Axis repatriates home via Lisbon, they denounced so loudly the mixing of diplomats and notables that the sailing was all balled up. In Brazil they protested the accommodations on a ship especially refurbished for a Brazilian-Axis exchange via Lisbon. In other South American countries, acting on their own initiative, they asked permission to stay even if interned. Others wangled or wandered into Argentina and Chile, only...
...Anxious relatives and friends of war prisoners in the Far East got cheering news last week from the American Red Cross: Japan, as a party to the Geneva Convention of 1929 (about treatment of prisoners of war), will permit "officially listed" prisoners and interned U.S. civilians to receive mail from this country via the International Red Cross Committee in Geneva...
...that rose on the curly head of Wendell Lund, son of a Lutheran minister, had set on the stooped, little Russian-born son of a Jewish merchant. After almost three years of anxious, conscientious, misunderstood service to Franklin Roosevelt, Hillman was through. He had wanted the job that went to Paul McNutt. The job that went to Wendell Lund might have galled him. But what would have been a long step down for Sidney Hillman was a long step up for Wendell Lund...
After a month of anxious waiting, the Freshman Class was notified Friday afternoon, a week earlier than expected, as to the outcome of their applications for entrance into the House system. Official notices tucked under doors brought the long awaited news which told the Class of '45 what their new Cambridge addresses would be beginning this summer...