Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view of that fact we were especially anxious to have the reaction of Berlin citizens to an uncensored publication presenting the viewpoint of the Western Democracies on world affairs. Our Berlin bureau chief, John Scott, and his staff asked a good many of them why they were buying TIME. Their replies covered the whole field of European reader reaction...
...Creamy Jacket. In the midst of his domestic labors, he ran head-on into the tough, touchy Palestine problem. With rare irritation, Harry Truman informed a delegation of anxious Congressmen that he had no time to discuss the matter with them. He had too much else on his mind...
...educational programs, in crises like the Ohio River flood of 1937, in more localized incidents like the epidemic in Minneapolis. There last week some 290 children were down with polio, the worst epidemic in the city's history. Thousands of others, kept indoors to escape infection, were driving anxious mothers out of their wits...
...being exported for money. There are few new cars, radios, and clothes: here again, the overseas market is being served first. Nor is there much chance that the situation will improve in the near future, for England finds herself a debtor nation for the first time and is terribly anxious about her financial straits. A major worry of late has been the prospect that U. S. inflation will destroy whatever benefits the loan might bring by enabling England to buy far less in the U. S. with the extended credits. As a result, the price control battle in Washington...
Five. Home is Five's world, with mother as its center. Life is uncomplicated, in balance. Anxious to help and to please, he shuns pioneering, keeps his mother posted on his doings. Five likes to sleep eleven hours, eat plain food, ride tricycles, copy numbers and designs, wash himself (but he often gets stuck, scrubbing the same knee over & over unless mother helps...