Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops, beginning a new push against Germany, were more than anxious to greet their Russian comrades. Stars & Stripes printed its first Russian lesson; signs of "WELCOME IVAN" blossomed in the Western Front's rubble. Into a U.S. battalion headquarters walked a deadpan U.S. sergeant, costumed as a Russian, who gestured at a map of Germany and said: "We have captured all this. Now, comrades, we need rest, beds...
...Anxious Haligonians, who from shore had watched the billows of smoke and the swords of flame leap from the Volunteer, knew-some of them could even remember-what Halifax had missed. In December 1917 another munitions ship, the Mont Blanc, had caught fire in their harbor. In one monstrous moment, 4,000 tons of TNT exploded...
...week Mike was in the Passaic jail. The hardened cops, a few with sons of their own in the service who must some day begin to adjust themselves to civilian life, treated Mike gently. The charges were serious: armed robbery and carrying a concealed weapon. But no one seemed anxious to press the more serious charge of kidnapping...
...Cover Girl Caravan." It was Vetluguin, however, who had the original idea for Cover Girl, which proved to be the turning point of her career. But without Colby there probably would have been no such musical film. Good models were not anxious to exchange the security of New York for the risks of Hollywood. Magazine publishers, remembering an unfortunate B-picture called The Powers Girl, were leary of the whole idea...
...encouraging to see the clubhouse so full of such team spirit. But the big game was waiting. The first half was over, the score looked bad, and the spectators were anxious...