Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pindus Mountains, extending like a probing finger from Albania and Yugoslavia into the heart of Greece. In those crags Markos Vafiades can claim to rule. And his influence extends to any rocky slope throughout Greece where armed men may hide beyond the easy reach of troops not anxious to stage a manhunt...
Abductions of anti-Communist Viennese by what the press delicately calls "one of the occupying powers" have recently risen to the rate of one a week. Sounding somewhat like an anxious mother telling her children not to take candy from strangers, Austria's Ministry of the Interior last week counseled: 1) insist on seeing the badge of any agent who approaches you claiming to be a policeman; 2) do not enter any car unless the agent in charge is a legitimate policeman; 3) leave your name, the name of the agent and the number of his car with...
...Most Anxious." On Good Friday a small procession wound along the Via Dolorosa. At each station of Christ's journey to Calvary, Archbishop Arthur Hughes, Papal Internuncio at Cairo, genuflected and intoned a prayer; the crowd knelt on the cobbled street and answered. Along the route stood mildly curious Arab Tommy-gunners...
Familiar voices repeated an old and threadbare lie-the miners were merely on a vacation. But almost every one of 400,000 soft-coal miners had left the pits. Blast furnaces had begun to shut down. An anxious government ordered railroads to cut their coal-burning passenger service by 25%. These were the first signs of the palsy which always accompanies a coal strike. It was no nightmare. It was, in fact and flesh, John Lewis again...
...Houses no longer seem to have the seven distinctly different personalities that they once had; save for a few surface peculiarities, they are pretty much the same. And there is a new consideration that cannot be discounted: with the vacancies far outnumbered by the Freshmen anxious to fill them, picking one of the more popular Houses may not be the shrewdest possible move...