Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matilde Ibanez de Batlle Berres, a woman whose chief interests are her three children and her garden, had made one of her rare public appearances in an official visit to an elementary school in Flores Department. When Senora de Batlle Berres came into one of the classes, the teacher, anxious to show off her pupils, called on an eight-year-old for the name of the wife of the President of the Republic. Blurted the radio-prepped moppet: "Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron...
...time in its 64 seasons, the Met faced a double audience on opening night: the 3,459 seat holders, and an estimated 2,000,000 who watched every move on television.* After a summer of uncertainty and criticism (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.), the Metropolitan's management was anxious to please both...
...rootin'-tootin' father had been bored with innkeeping, but he was a great hand at banditry and kissing the women he robbed. The son is a shaky beanpole who falls off his horse at the drop of a hoof. He is afraid of guns and women, but anxious to see that the inn has plenty of clean sheets and towels...
...worked; it has been in, contrast to that used in other colleges, where decisions affecting students are handed down from the administration, and where there is no appeal. Fortunately, in this instance, Dean Bender has rejected a measure which would have denied student rights, and has proved he is anxious for the tradition of student-administration cooperation to continue...
...Washington bureau, anxious to provide guidance for its members, had wired papers around the country for their latest vote estimates. It wrote 300 words of guidance but threw the story away as too inconclusive. Four years from now, sagely suggested the Washington Post's James R. Wiggins, "the A.P. should put out an hourly bulletin reminding its members that an American election is never over until the last vote is counted...