Word: anxiousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey, where a slate of Kefauver delegates will oppose an uncommitted slate headed by Governor Robert Meyner in the April 17 primary, Kefauver men were laying out a busy, five-day campaign schedule for their candidate. Governor Meyner, who has been reported leaning to Stevenson, but is anxious to escape the fate of Minnesota's Stevenson-supporting Governor Orville Freeman, invited the Senator from Tennessee to lunch...
Last week, anxious to keep his own position maneuverable, wily President Soekarno intervened four times in an effort to include a Communist or Communist-approved minister in the Cabinet. ("The President," said one diplomat, "is Indonesia's answer to the universal joint.") Each time, he ran into a solid wall of opposition from the Moslem parties. Finally he gave in, approved the Cabinet without change and without Communists. "In the past we've been on one bank of a river characterized by poverty, corruption and political instability," he told the new Cabinet. "Now we have changed our government...
...Pusey was anxious, when she arrived in Cambridge in the summer of 1953, to decorate her Quincy Street home with some original works of art. The Fogg Museum seemed the logical place to look, especially since it loans out a large number of originals. Of the paintings available, however, Mrs. Pusey could find only two to her liking and had to turn to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for the rest...
Because he was from a university himself, Malia managed to make many acquaintances at the University. He found that every one was eager to talk, even when they found out he was a foreigner--and an American, at that. They were all curious, anxious to hear about the United States. They even put a premium value on American cigarettes...
Malia noted concern among students about the barriers against the West, and reported that the phrase "Iron Curtain" is used and understood in Russia. The Russians are anxious to learn about the West and are particularly interested in American literature, of which they have very little recent knowledge...