Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only last November, anxious for Zionist political support, Harry Truman had plumped for partition, had ordered U.S. delegates to force it through the United Nations. Last March, anxious about Arab threats, he had startled the world by abandoning partition, plumping for trusteeship. The United Nations threw trusteeship out the window. But when the Jews took matters into their own hands, Harry Truman surprised the U.N. again...
...Anxious Moments. The legislation covered $1,651,000,000 which the Administration had marked down in the 1948-49 budget for aircraft procurement, plus $725 million Harry Truman had added on second thought, plus $822 million Congress thought should be added. The total $3,198,000,000 would be divided up at roughly a 70-30 ratio between Air Force and Navy...
...carrier which the Navy yearned for. Congress was less than likely to pass universal military training, which was down for $400 million. But in the end the total defense appropriations would be around $14 billion, which was even more than the Finletter Commission, in its most anxious moments four months ago, had thought necessary for national defense. There were no bargains, yet, in defense...
...Selhurst School, "near Petworth in Sussex," seemed to need advice. Since fashionable Marlborough College had recently been visited by the royal family, Sneath wrote to Marlborough's headmaster: "As you are probably aware, this summer sees the 300th anniversary of the foundation of Selhurst ... I am most anxious to have the honor of entertaining Their Majesties, if this is at all feasible. How did you engineer your royal visit...
...Dallas' Mercantile Bank auditorium last week, stockholders crowded in for the first annual meeting of Lone Star Steel Co. Texans were anxious to know how their first home-owned heavy metal industry (TIME, April 7, 1947) was doing. They heard the good news that Lone Star's stock, floated at $1.50 a share, was selling over the counter for as high as $7.50. Then came the bad news...