Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from concealing the clues and making a crafty getaway, the mad murderer is usually indifferent about being arrested. Often, like Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov, he is anxious for his crime to be followed by punishment...
...faced with the cold stare of Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Secretary Snyder was in an "adamant" mood. He stiffly reasserted the Administration's stand against tax cuts, refused to let Republican committeemen persuade him that big cuts are needed now to bolster public purchasing power, and left the anxious committee to guess whether Harry Truman would veto the final version of the tax bill...
...Since Joe Palooka's girl, Ann Howe, got lost in the mountains of Wyoming after a plane crash last December, Cartoonist Ham Fisher has been flooded with more than 40,000 anxious inquiries and offers of help. They came from Senators, mayors, police chiefs, Legion posts. Even Harry Truman asked, when Fisher visited the White House: "When's Joe going ta find that girl?" By last week, Ham Fisher had had more than enough. In a special panel in his cartoon strip he assured Palooka fans: "JOE WILL FIND...
...that "W.W." was anxious to switch, wrote his crony Abel Green. But for the first time in 17 years Winchell was "sans contract." He had told the publisher of Hearst's New York Mirror that if The Chief "wants to keep me interested," perhaps they'd better talk things over. As matters stood, the pay from his syndicated column was chicken feed for Turkey Gobbler Winchell: on the radio, where he sells lotion, he was getting $7,500 a week, a $130,000-a-year raise over 1946. His gross income: $502,000 a year...
...institution composed of sharps and flats rather than bricks and mortar, the Pierian Sodality is older than most of the more orthodox structures of the University, Memorial Hall included. Founded in 1808 by students anxious to improve their instrumental skills, the Sodality (Latin for fellowship) was at first more a social congregation than a note-following gathering. Yet their early addiction to mellow spirits rather than spirited melodies in no way obviates their claim to being "the oldest musical organization in America"-as well as Boston...