Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plight of Europe's displaced persons has of course been getting a great deal of attention-from Congress, from the press as a whole, from organizations, from individuals anxious to help. A pleasing indication of this interest is the response from TIME readers to the Zielezinski story. During the past few weeks a good many of you have written to TIME to ask how you can help displaced persons admitted to this country. For example...
Winston Churchill, a sturdy monogamist himself, pointed out the loopholes to prospective wife-killers. If you are anxious to avoid hanging, he said, "you can strangle her, hold her head in a gas oven . . . stab her, cut her throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...
Plenty of Room. Fox himself is anxious to dispel any suspicions that he stands to profit by unfair "monopoly" or "state trading." His contract, he says, affects only about 25% of the islands' total trade ($450 million in 1940), and private Indonesians are free to deal with whom they please. Competitors, he insists, are welcome-particularly from...
Despite this news of plenty, grain markets held fairly firm. The Department of Agriculture, anxious to keep prices from sliding toward Government-support levels, had paved the way for its rosy estimates. Hinting that any increases in yields might well be absorbed by a broadening of the export program, it saw no reason for "radical downward adjustment in the prices of most crops...
...kind of Currier & Ives of the current scene" and his publishers promise "a savage and deeply probing novel of the rich and frightening influential society of our time." He tells the story of Hero Dixon West, a rich kid but nice, who comes back from combat in the Pacific anxious to use his wealth constructively but not sure how to go about it. Grandfather West, crusty and conservative owner of a powerful chain of magazines, looks at first to Dixon like a threat to the good life, and finally seems like the man to emulate. Dixon's father...