Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ounce of good nervous tone in an examination is worth many pounds of anxious study for it in advance. If you want really to do your best in an examination, fling away the book the day before, say to yourself, 'I won't waste another minute on this miserable thing, and I don't care an iota whether I succeed or not." Say this sincerely, and feel it; and go out and play, or go to bed and sleep, and I am sure the results next day will encourage you to use the method permanently...
...There are certain leaders in the government of that great country who are exceedingly anxious to have an under standing with us. I'll spend my time in the next four years to reach an under standing on a basis that peace is possible with all nations. I know it can be done." The President's remark may have been meant to raise hopes. What it did was raise questions. Was there "some new sceneshifting going on behind the Iron Curtain? Who were the "certain leaders" in Russia who wanted to end the Cold war? The President...
...President of the U.S. tells his people that he is going to spend the next four years trying to reach an understanding, and that there are Soviet leaders who are anxious for that understanding (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), confusion and division will result, and these in turn will breed phenomena such as Garry Davis...
...said Fairless, "I am just as anxious or more anxious to talk to you than you are to talk...
Better precautions are now being taken. Dr. Shields Warren, director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Biology and Medicine, thinks that the five physicists probably suffered because they were so anxious to speed up their experiments that they took short cuts...