Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sight. Plainly, the President was anxious to get the Ward case off the nation's front pages and, if possible, out of the nation's mind. He acted swiftly on the tested maxim that it is always good politics to remedy your mistakes quickly but never admit having made them...
This week Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez conferred with his anxious cabinet. Twelve years, five months after he seized power, the Dictator agreed to "deposit the Presidency" in the hands of others...
...time emergencies, the physician is the only M.D. in town and though 70 years old, blind, half deaf and ignorant of all medical knowledge of the last half century, he manages to deliver all the babies successfully. Typical of his brand of medicine is his reply to an anxious patient who calls him up and asks. "Junior just throw up, doctor. What should I do?" "Clean it up," snaps the tottering doctor as he pursues his work...
Bright red banners wavered in the soft spring air. A tremendous color portrait of Stalin in his marshal's sand-hued greatcoat smiled benignly from the ornate facade of the Historical Museum. Old women scrubbed shop windows, old men hosed the streets, anxious housewives queued up for special holiday goodies and 10,000 Red Army men gathered one evening before the Bolshoi Theater to practice mass singing. Moscow was ready for May Day; people said that there might be an oldtime monster parade across Red Square, the first since...
Miss Alpenfels has spent much of 1944 barnstorming the Midwest, chiefly for Dr. Stewart Grant Cole's Bureau for Intercultural Education, which provides source material and teaching ideas to school systems anxious to teach something about U.S. cultural diversities, minimize bias, increase mutual tolerance...