Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Politicians & a Visitation. In London was Dr. Juan Negrin, left-wing Socialist, last premier of the Spanish Republic. During Spain's civil war Dr. Negrin had ousted anti-Communist War Minister Prieto with the help of the Russians. Now he seemed anxious to make peace with Prieto...
...crying wolf; no one was anxious to magnify the problem. No one was afraid that it could not be solved. But last week the Army was flying 400-lb. shells to the front on the Rhine...
Laughs ... "I like best of all," Elsa once observed, "the sincerity in the anxious eyes of all the little American women who are trying to be useful to their country." Elsa, not little but conspicuously American, considers her parties, like her "Line," an important contribution to the nation's morale. She once swore she would never do a column, because she hates gossip and abhors café society ("The only society I recognize is that of intellect and talent"). Only because "people needed to laugh more" did she yield in 1941 when Paul Winkler of Press Alliance syndicate offered...
...Anxious to Win." Both Presidential candidates had saved a blow for Boston...
Negro soldiers, entraining for overseas duty, paused to look at the patriotic poster spread across the wall of a railroad terminus. "What You Are Fighting For!" boomed the slogan under a sea of proud, anxious American faces. The Negroes "gave the eye-catching picture a swift glance and then snapped their heads away, almost as if by command." Every face on the poster was white...