Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zealous, jealous guardianship that the American Red Cross exercises over U.S. soldiers abroad led to a feline exchange in Melbourne last week. Anxious to discourage "inadvisable" marriages between doughboys and Australian girls, the American Red Cross asked the Australian Red Cross to investigate the families and backgrounds of prospective brides. The Australians refused. They said that they were equally worried about the character of the prospective grooms. Before the ruffled fur could settle, an American Red Cross official from Philadelphia married an Australian girl from Yass, in New South Wales...
...such cases - the old, "suppressive," "forget-it" treatment of World War I, and the newer "catharsis" in which, by means of persuasion with or without drugs, the despairing soldier is made to spit it out. Still most common, because it takes less time, is the old-fashioned method. The anxious soldier is given rest, sedatives, food and psychiatric pep talks. These are usually given so that all the ward may hear - only the most personal part of the discussion is sotto voce. The question is asked repeatedly: "You want to go back and try again...
Other items which Sir William traces far include: absquatulate, anxious seat, slam bang, cinch, lengthy, maverick, rain check, barn stormer, cowcatcher, calamity howler, greased lightning, rambunctious...
...Persuaded Tennessee's able young Representative Albert Gore (who dropped by on post-induction furlough) that good men can be more useful in Congress than in the Army. For the benefit of other anxious-to-enlist legislators, the President announced flatly that no man could legally be both Congressman and soldier...
...maker of the finest U.S. harpsichords was back last week in Ypsilanti, Mich., full of happy memories. Wiry, black-haired John Chain's had vastly enjoyed a holiday season of harpsichordery in Manhattan. But he was anxious to get to work...