Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even on simple reporting jobs, CRIMSON writers continued to try to prove themselves the ink-stained wretches that Radcliffe thought them to be. One, covering the Phillips Brooks House teas, wrote: "Officials, anxious for pleasant social contacts to be made, point out that the 'Cliffe-dwellers are a rugged tribe. It is also to be noted that they say the new freshman class at Radcliffe is the prettiest in recent years. All of which may be taken at face value...
...There is as much danger today from those whom one authority calls "dogmatic modernists" as from the traditional rock-ribbed reactionary. For liberalism in an approach, an attitude of mind, a way of life which meets an issue fortified with knowledge and intelligence, shorn of prejudice, and willing and anxious to make a decision and carry it through...
...controversy in the CRIMSON began during my junior year. Some of the members of the board of editors, including myself, felt that the CRIMSON had been losing a little ground during the difficult years of depression. We were anxious to make it a better paper and to attract the ablest editors from each class...
...Glasgow early last summer, two young Polish Jews named Mordecai Szulc and Manick Kuper met a mysterious stranger whom they knew only as George. They were veterans of the Polish Army, and they were anxious to get to Canada. George was willing to help them, for $1,500 apiece...
...ever a people took energy from hope...." In the fields around shell-pocked Shevchenko, they found cheerful bands of women picking cucumbers. They were barefoot, "for shoes are still too precious to use in the fields." Everywhere, they found dogged, friendly people, willing to share their bread and cabbage, anxious to hear about America and full of misconceptions about it, instilled by the Russian press. Again & again they were asked: "Will the U.S. attack us?" Again & again they had to explain why the U.S. does not believe in controlling its press or regimenting its people...