Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the Pacific to Manila and Saigon and Taipei last week went the Vice President of the U.S. on a two-point assignment. Face to face with Asian leaders, Richard Nixon elucidated the U.S. position that collective security is wiser than neutralism. To anxious allies, he conveyed high-level assurance that the Geneva discussions between the U.S. and Red China portend no basic change in this country's attitude toward Asia...
National Shrine. In Poznan, workers were back on their jobs full shift, and, as part of the appearance of leniency, were given a first installment "tax rebate" of 1,200,000 zlotys ($300,000 by official rates, $15,000 in fact). An anxious quiet settled over the city...
...condensed edition of Toynbee−to pick up for relaxation. Another bargaining session between the steelworkers' union and the country's three largest steel companies had ended a few minutes before. McDonald, who had been leading the union delegates at the sessions in the Hotel Roosevelt, was anxious to be away from the stress and the press to sit back and relax...
...Know Criminals." Anxious not to compromise Swiss neutrality, Judge Schwartz resolutely steered Beldeanu away from any discussion of the contents of the 464 documents that the band had turned over to the Swiss police, and which the police-after a day's delay-had dutifully returned to the legation. Otherwise, the court heard defense witnesses out with obvious fascination, and when the prosecution began to present its witnesses, their statements frequently sounded more like letters of reference than like hostile testimony. "I know criminals when I see them," declared the prison warden. "These men are no criminals...
...recommended its purchase because "Avery is a very distinguished colorist, and in the American school color isn't our strong point. The painting is a semi-abstraction of a very subtle kind. In the context of American painting Avery is considered a very important master, and we were anxious to have his point of view, his subtlety, represented...