Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after seven anxious years, the Bel was barely swinging. Import restrictions had shrunk its British market. To square garrulous Editor Peadar O'Donnell, one time schoolmaster in County Donegal there seemed but one way out. He would go to the U.S. and raise some money...
...then," he continued, "came the first hint that angry noises were being made inside the [U.S.] Immigrant Bureau, and anxious friends wrote to ask whether anything had happened during my long stay [in the U.S.] in 1939. Had the police bothered...
JOSE FIGUERES guide got us safely Second Republic." through the Government lines and, after 30 perspiring, anxious miles, we ran into a rebel patrol. It was like old home week. The patrol leader was a former Ohio college student. He gave us some warm milk sweetened with sugar and sent us on to Figueres' headquarters. There I met a Louisiana State University graduate who was Figueres' best machine-gunner and, so help me, the red-bearded Puerto Limon garrison commander was a classmate of mine at the University of California. (All three, of course, were Costa Ricans.) California...
...General Ho Ying-chin, staunch antiCommunist, former war minister and chief of staff. While a Chinese representative at U.N. last year, General Ho had attended a Buchmanite meeting at Niagara Falls.* Friends said that he was a changed man. But, even fortified by moral rearmament, General Ho was not anxious for the headaches of the premiership...
...Truman had been considering the move ever since it became evident that the Jews had made up their minds to become an independent state. After the Smith-Molotov talks, Washington was determined not to let Moscow beat it to this one. Zionists were planning nationwide celebrations. Candidate Truman was anxious to have his name mentioned in the rejoicing...