Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sergeant Oscar Duebec pulled the pin from a grenade he was about to hurl with his right hand when he was wounded in the left hand. Perplexed, he decided to walk to the aid station, keeping the grenade immobilized by continuing to grasp the lever in his right palm. Anxious medics hurriedly stitched the wound, whereupon Duebec walked back . . . relieved everyone by chucking the grenade into enemy positions...
Anxiety in January. "I have had only two anxious moments. . . . The first was on January 15 when we attacked Tripoli. I knew we must get to Tripoli in ten days. ... I knew that if the Germans could hold us we might have to go back a long way. . . . For about one day in that battle, I was slightly anxious. But we got to Tripoli in eight days. The second occasion was when we left Tripoli. . . . About the same time Rommel was attacking the Americans at Gafsa, and we had to do something about it. ... We were very weak and very...
...U.S.S.R. has so far ignored Olympic games. But sports isolation has started to fade. Reported TIME Correspondent Dick Lauterbach from Moscow last week: Russia and the U.S. have a score of games in common (including basketball), and Soviet sportsmen are anxious to match skills with U.S. athletes, would welcome visits by American teams...
...Anxious to preserve the ape colony, the British recently brought in two males from Tetuan. They were called Monty and Ike (for obvious generals). Inexplicably, Ike died. For Monty, a female was flown from Algiers in a bomber. Her crate was labeled "On His Majesty's Service...
...shrewd, patient little Mr. Benes, President of the Czechoslovak Government in Exile, Moscow was an end to months of anxious waiting, a fulfillment of great hopes, a beginning for postwar Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe. The day after his arrival, he stood in the Kremlin beside his friend and patron, Joseph Stalin. Together they watched while Molotov and Czechoslovak Ambassador Zdenek Fierlinger signed a treaty of friendship, mutual assistance and postwar collaboration-a pact that may serve as Russia's basic plan for other Central and Eastern European nations...