Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philosophy Is Born. Some light is shed on the new philosophy by the way in which Sébille, anxious to clamber on to the lurching bandwagon of postwar Parisian culture, hit upon its name. One day Sébille met a charming girl in an existentialist bar. Said he: "After dinner I proposed to her that we get to know each other more intimately. She replied with a disarming smile: 'Of course. I'm an intimatist.' The name of my philosophy was found...
With a heavy spring enrollment of anxious veteran parents, Mrs. Alper found the content of the course as much bringing up father as the care and feeding of infants...
Then Tory Walter Elliot tangled with Laborite Malcolm Macmillan. Elliot: "The honorable member . . . who has totally failed to get office under any Government, is very anxious to get it now." Macmillan: "[Elliot] has himself been kicked out of every office he has held...
...year ago Old 81st's ruler-straight back began to sag, his legs swelled with arthritis. He got so weak and lame that his handlers, anxious to maintain his invaluable services, adopted a strategy that beefmen rarely use. By artificial insemination, Old 81st got 190 more cows with calf before, wasted by pain, he was finally put to death last week...
...Anxious into air ; instruments glowed...