Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need not be anxious," declared Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery as he looked over the state of the world. "I think that everything will work out all right in the end. Teach your boys & girls to grow up into decent men & women, and as long as you do that you need not worry...
...biggest news of the month was being made in Moscow last week, but what little news came out did not come from there. It was not for lack of trying. The press was not bound by any voluntary censorship, and it was ready & anxious to print any news it could get. In trying to cover the four-power talks on Germany, the foreign press corps in Moscow, now down to a corporal's guard, ran into a new kind of four-power agreement: an unbroken compact of silence. It led to some of the most frustrated reporting-and wildest...
...first, Anne was well-treated. Professors, not yet forced to join the party, regarded themselves above politics. She even had proposals of marriage from young Poles anxious to become U.S. citizens. ("They didn't seem to realize," says Anne, "that if I married them, they wouldn't become Americans...
...self-ignorance. The types recur: the intense, ambitious, unimaginative older son who is the pride of the family and the one whom death cuts down; the hardworking, kind elder sister; the young girl, liberated and "radical"; the pampered shy and idle younger son; and the down-to-earth, eternally anxious, adoring mother who endures...
...find careless clerks doling out precious dollars at the old rate. In the Calle Isabel la Catolica, flooded by recent rains, money changers stood shin deep in water, clinking handfuls of gold coins and arguing prices. They offered six and seven pesos for a dollar and readily went higher. Anxious travelers and others who urgently needed dollars paid 10, 12, and even...