Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born That Way. When Chappuis fades back to pass, he is a slow-motion study in coolness and concentration. To anxious Michigan rooters, it seems an agonizingly long time before he throws. Crisler, after 25 years of coaching (at Chicago, Minnesota, Princeton and Michigan), places Chappuis on the same lofty pedestal with deadeye Benny Friedman, a Michigan immortal of the 19203. Says Fritz: "You can't get much better than that...
...night, the most anxious of the three months in hiding, Gina's Fascist boy friend walked in the house unannounced and found her playing cards with the three men. He demanded to know who the men were, and Gina, without hesitation, told him that they were U.S. flyers. The Fascist turned around, started back down the stairs, and announced that he was going to turn them in. "Go ahead," said Gina. "But you will have a dead fiancee. . . . They will shoot all of us." The boy friend changed his mind...
...organize celebrations. At the South Boston Boys' Club alone 1500 kids delighted in the old standbys of sawing girls in half, sipping eider, and calling forth taffy apples from a cauldron of goo. This afternoon is the Rutgers game: another squad of 30 leaders will corral a howling 200 anxious to see football played in the Stadium...
Americanism, announced Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre in the Nation, is "a great external reality rising up at the entrance to the port of New York . . . and the daily product of anxious liberties. The anguish of the American confronted with Americanism is an ambivalent anguish, as if he were asking, 'Am I American enough?' and at the same time, 'How can I escape from Americanism...
Rotund, easygoing Pappy Waldorf had one thing in his favor: the team was anxious to prove that it was not the players who were responsible for last year's disasters. Several players ran all summer to get their legs in shape; four of them, whose eyes were bad, got fitted with contact lenses. Last week California's Golden Bears scored their fifth straight victory of the season, over Washington State...