Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Suspicion. That was Joe's story and he stuck to it. There was some suspicion that there was more to the whole business than met the eye. Lewis was anxious to get out of a legal box. So far, he had disregarded a court order to send his miners back to work. He was due to appear before Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough and explain why he should not be held in contempt. Goldsborough was the man who, a year ago, had slapped him and his union with a $3,510,000 fine (later reduced...
...they are ready for such limitations on national sovereignty. Enthusiasm varies, country by country, on these points: Frenchmen (whose tradition is to stay at home) are not quite so willing to open the doors to migrant foreign labor as Italians (whose tradition includes working abroad). Britons are not so anxious to merge the pound sterling with continental currencies; they are reluctant to see a Western Union army in which British troops would have to serve under non-British commanders. Some fear what removal of tariffs just now would do to their markets or their jobs...
...their part, the German students seemed most anxious to hear about life in the U.S. But some could not conceal their disappointment when they learned that their new professors were planning to teach ordinary, old-fashioned subjects. They had been hoping to hear about atomic energy...
...Jewish Agency warned that Jerusalem would become a battlefield when the British withdrew. Said a spokesman: ". . . In any battle for Jerusalem we would be most anxious to respect the holy places but, in practice, it will be impossible...
...Continuous Miner will not solve the labor problem in coal mines. John L. Lewis once said that he would rather have 100,000 union members secure in their jobs than 400,000 who were insecure. But mine operators were anxious to see the machine. One of them has ordered 30, sight unseen. Joy hopes to have commercial models ready by year...