Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they filtered down the line to lesser lights. For a week, I was the only Allied journalist in town. Unmolested, though carefully watched, I could walk the streets, listen to the German soldiers in bars and cafes, converse with people who, though on the Axis side, still seemed anxious to explain why they did what they...
...London came a shrewd guess at another phase of these plans. The astute Observer added up the signs that Adolf Hitler proposes to fight for months, that he has utterly destroyed every source of democratic or leftist resistance, that even the Junkers, industrialists and generals are neither able nor anxious to throw him out and shorten the war, that the Nazis actually do have plans to go underground...
...great U.S. wheat belt, farmers listen to "Stake" almost as anxiously as to the weather man. Last week Professor Elvin C. Stakman, famed University of Minnesota plant pathologist, gave them something to be anxious about. "No. 56," the dread wheat rust, is rising to epidemic proportions. Stake and his boys were making some laboratory progress against it; they were sure they would eventually master No. 56, as they had mastered many another disease. But the outbreak once more confirmed a Stakman theory: the news on the fungus front is always...
Conference Worries. All the foreign delegates were anxious about the possibility that Congress might reject the work of the conference. U.S. bankers, the only American group articulate about the conference, have been highly critical of the whole proposal-perhaps partly out of fear of losing some of their power in foreign-exchange and foreign-investment business, partly out of dislike of all change and from misunderstanding of the Bretton Woods proposals. Some of the bankers' criticisms...
...against Russia (see FOREIGN NEWS). Finland was another front where time meant something to the Germans. They wanted to keep the Soviets' 20 divisions (plus reserves) in Finland tied up there as long as possible, to stave them off their own necks at Narva. They were desperately anxious to keep the Russians away from Petsamo and its nickel mines, away from the Petsamo air base from which German planes sniped at Allied shipping in the Arctic...