Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill, but thousands of the veterans were doing their "studying" on the job in factories, and thousands more had gone back to high school. There was still another vast group of G.I.s who had found themselves adrift in the deep-too old to go back to high school, anxious for college training but not sufficiently schooled...
...sergeants. One was the wife of Brigadier Gordon Redvers Way, chief of the British military mission to Tiflis in 1942. After a three-day honeymoon in Tiflis, Way was ordered to Cairo, has not seen his wife since. Most of the wives were young and comely, and all were anxious to join their husbands. But the Soviet Government refused them exit visas...
...like "Good Morning Heartache" the crowd clapped ardently and stamped their feel. Finally she did a simple, stark presentation of "Strange Fruit," which carried more punch than Lillian Smith's novel, and then she disappeared despite her howling admirers. They stamped, and shricked, and ranted, and raved. Finally Louis, anxious to get on with the show, said, "Take it easy, she's just gone out to change her dress," and the crowd quieted down. But she never came back...
After his speech, even Vandenberg seemed anxious to set himself straight on that point. Said he to a friend: "If anybody had told me a year ago that I would be making an all-out effort in behalf of David Lilienthal, I would have thought him crazy. But it was a political lynching that was going...
Tenting Tonight (by Frank Gould; produced by Saul Fischbein) is one of those harmless, agitated, anxious-to-please little comedies that loom big only in their blundering. It concerns a bunch of former G.I.s who can't get into a jerkwater college because they cannot find a place to live. They high-pressure a kindly prof into letting them make a flophouse of his living room; but a big-shot trustee gets mad at the idea. Then they soft-soap a racketeer into turning a building he has leased into a dormitory instead of a dive. But the trustee...