Word: anxiously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jackie Cochran maintained an anxious silence while Hap Arnold talked on. The committee kept its report in its desk. Ramspeck had not decided whether to release it officially or let the cold facts come out in debate when Cochran's WASPs are tossed onto the House floor...
Incentive Pay? A pertinent financial question: why was the corporation so anxious to sell its president the stock? Officials blandly explained that Sinco is now 68, and is eligible to retire on an annual pension of $37,000. Therefore, something more than his $155,000-a-year salary was needed as an incentive to keep him running the corporation. But few oilmen believed that there was any danger of Sinco quitting. He had never been a quitter, not even during the ill-famed Teapot Dome scandal...
Crisis Talk. All three, WPBoss Donald Nelson, Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson, averred that they were anxious about the war labor situation. Donald Nelson used such phrases as "desperately acute," "a great danger," "very grave," and "serious" to describe the manpower needs in the casting and foundry industries, lumber, pulpwood and textiles...
...Harvard team explained that the Britishers from squantum will be out to win, as no British team has yet defeated Harvard in a formal game. The Crimson team, with a record of five points for every point scored against them this season, will like-wise be in top form, anxious to maintain its record...
...mind ever probing into Britain's and the Empire's weaknesses. In his versatility this statesman, warrior, philosopher, orator, scientist, author had a quality of the Elizabethans. Britons thought of him as South Africa's late Governor General Sir Patrick Duncan had called him in the anxious days of 1941: "A great rock in a weary world...