Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston College officials are anxious to schedule attractive college bills, hoping to attract the lukewarm basketball...
...unity be established with officers who every few months shock our union and almost lead it to destruction because they are anxious to see our union controlled by outside forces?" Joe pleaded with the men to support him and the kind of trade unionism which has one objective: more money...
Whether he actually walked out with his ice skates draped around his neck, intending to use them that night, or whether he was merely locating them for a future spin, an anxious family count of several pairs of ice skates in the house closets has failed to ascertain...
That did it. Last week London heard a disturbing rumor that generous Americans and Canadians (possibly influenced by an American jingle circa 1890)* were sending whole shiploads of peanuts. The circus managers had several anxious days. There would surely be a high howl in Britain over giving valuable food to animals when British children could use it; and there would surely be a shrill cry from U.S. zoophilists if peanuts intended for elephants were diverted...
From its sizable British market, Hollywood got another rebuff last week. Said Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the export-conscious Board of Trade: "I am certain there are millions of [British] filmgoers who are anxious to see the best films from other countries. But there are limits to our appetite, both quantity and quality, and we also feel that exchange implies reciprocity." Unless Hollywood exports improve, he warned, Britain may well restrict them by imposing quotas and tariffs...