Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, with a Negro population of 115,000 (13% of the population), remained cautiously calm. Not only the leaders, but the people of both races seemed genuinely anxious to avoid any big outburst...
Given to the University by Charles R. Crane, former United States Ministers to China, the bells were once the property of the Dana Monastery, in Moscow. Crane offered a set of Russian bells to President Lowell after seeing them, on a trip through Europe, and President Lowell anxious to bless the crimson halls with a touch of the continent accepted the gift...
...bumper crop of wheat in wind-drifted heaps. Labor was also short. Hardest hit were the small elevators that lack mechanical unloading devices-few men want the backbreaking job of scooping wheat from the cars. Result: at Kansas City, 4,800 loaded cars were stalled in the yards, while anxious farmers feared that their wheat would spoil if heavy rains came...
Nice Place, Omsk. Everywhere the correspondents saw the signs and fruits of the vast migration from western Russia. In Omsk, young workers scrubbed clean of factory dirt danced to Russian and U.S. jazz. They had come from all parts of the Soviet Union. Some were anxious to get home, but most seemed to think Omsk a nice place to live and learn, were willing to do what the State decreed...
...With Me (and obviously meaning it) in the ship's sweaty hold, led by a sweating chaplain. The recorders were near the beachhead in a landing craft as the first wave of Marines went in, Hays quietly telling what he saw, Hepburn manipulating the controls and making one anxious comment for all to hear: "If that's not recording, I'm gonna...