Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been urging it for years. But the cost was only one barrier. The tunnel would interlace through 600 miles of underground workings, involving 2,000 patented claims, with heirs spread from Atlanta to China. RFC took one look at the legal snares, refused funds. Then the Bureau of Mines, anxious to increase zinc production, took an interest. (Zinc is used in brass cartridges; every big bomber carries 500 pounds of it.) As a war measure, Congress last spring gave Ickes the $1,400,000 he needed for the tunneling. Owners gave consent for the tunnel's right...
London also heard that the Russians, supremely anxious for an immediate invasion of western Europe, gracefully swallowed facts which they had hitherto refused to believe. The implication of this report was that Anglo-U.S. strategists had already scheduled western invasion about as soon as it could be effectively attempted...
Pseudopregnancy is fairly common among women, especially those very anxious to have children. Usually the abdominal swelling is steady and accompanied by a gain in weight. Sometimes women have a spasmodic abdominal distention. The soldier's swelling was of the latter type. "On Feb. 13 he had received a letter from home at 8 a.m., and his abdominal distention resulted at 11 a.m. the same day." He had another attack when he was refused permission to go home for his wife's confinement. "The circumference of the abdomen was 41 inches." By using narcotics and suggestion, the doctors...
...happens that the people and politicians most anxious for what ordinary Americans and Britons would call "democracy" are also Russia's friends in those countries. It also happens, on the public record to date, that people and politicians who do not represent what ordinary Americans and Britons would call "democracy" at home are precisely those toward whom the U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Office have shown the most warmth. Washington and London have been-to say the least-out of touch with the tremendous democratic resurgence which sprang from the pressures of war and oppression in German...
Horak got back to Prague. Underground leaders, knowing he was marked for death, and anxious to preserve history, started him on a long, dangerous journey to the Czech Government in Exile in London...