Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called Soviet Ambassador Mme. Alexandra Kollontay in Stockholm to tell her that the Finns would form a new government any minute now and please to remain close to the phone. As the Finns continued to fumble, the Swedes' embarrassment became more & more acute, for they are almost as anxious as the Russians are to get the matter settled. The Russians, watching Finland writhe, her defensive positions shattered, a large part of her army knocked out and her politicians still arguing about a new government, are inclined to ask: "What is this? A debating society...
...where book was made on how long she could keep it up. It was "almost hypnotic and compulsive." Said a woman listener: "We never left her that day. We stood by her side. I didn't go out all day, except to go shopping. Even then I was anxious to get back and listen. Of course, my sister was holding down the post in the meantime and could tell me what had happened...
...people, anxious to see exactly where Son John or Cousin Bill is stationed, rushed to buy maps. They needed the maps in their homework. For while cables and radio brought news of the invasion in staggering quantity, an even greater amount of a different kind of news was pouring into the U.S. in the millions of letters from servicemen on all fronts...
Over the Phone. One point the President seemed anxious to make definite: the blueprint shortly to be discussed by the Big Four was just a first draft. The blueprint was a plan to stop aggression, the President said; it did not envision an organization which you would have to call on whenever some country wanted to build a bridge over a creek...
...Tooey was anxious to make a start on his greatest assignment: knocking the props from under the German air force. His plan was ready, with six top-priority factories listed for destruction in the first paralyzing blow...