Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marshall was weary at war's end, 64 and anxious to settle down at his stately home in Leesburg, Va., where he could be with his wife Katherine (his first wife, whom he married in 1902, died of heart disease in 1927), and where he could work in his vegetable garden, read his favorite books-about Stonewall Jackson, Benjamin Franklin and Robert E. Lee. "We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness," said he in his valedictory. "This course has failed us utterly...
...Kassem's People's Court. From Jordan, where young King Hussein still dreams of succeeding to the vanished Iraqi throne of his murdered cousin, King Feisal, came reports of troop and aircraft movements toward the Iraqi border. And on Iraq's southern frontier, Saudi Arabian agents, anxious to prevent either Hussein or the Communists from taking power in Baghdad, moved among border tribesmen spreading money and promises...
...pattern was contagious, and neither Poe nor his immediate successors seemed anxious to move it back to America. The first big geographical jump came in 1887, when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought him to London in the guise of Sherlock Holmes. Like Dupin, Holmes was an intellectual athlete, and socially he was a marvel of mobility, at home with scholars, society bluebloods, police inspectors. "Holmes," wrote Social Historian David Bazelon, "despite his eccentricities, is essentially an English gentleman acting to preserve a moral way of life." From Dickens' unfinished teaser, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to the 20th century...
Many carriers who must wait their turn on jet-production lines are anxious to hold off until they receive their planes and are ready to compete. Both Alitalia and Japan Air Lines, which get their first jets next spring, do not want to lower fares or lift surcharges on jet flights (first class: $30 to Japan, $20 to Europe) in their areas immediately. Says one Japan Air Lines man: "We'll cut when we have our own jets, and that's the position of any airline without jets...
With thirty-three shells competing for the Thames Cup, the 'fifties were anxious to practice against competition, and held several "brushes," or informal races, with othercontenders for different events. In one of these, the Crimson eight brushed the Thames Rowing Club, eventual finalists for the Grand Challenge Cup and won over the full Henley distance of a mile and five sixteenths...