Word: cager
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department, however, still has made no move to gain Congressional authorization for one of the Committee's major proposals, the creation of a national scholarship system for prospective Foreign Service officers. Congressmen have not been so dilatory. The new session had barely opened last month when several cager Representatives introduced bills calling for a National Foreign Service Academy, a plan which the State Department has opposed in the past. Since its officials have freely admitted the urgent need for a more efficient recruitment program for the Service, the Department should end its delay and seek quick Congressional approval, either...
...want to sound hysterical, but it would be foolish to pretend that American education is not in severe danger. Three Congressional committees have announced their intention of "investigating" it. Even if the investigators were intelligent and responsible men, they are cager to investigate just the wrong thing...
...Crimson came back in the top of the ninth to win on a single, a safe bunt, two walks, and a large lump on Bennie Akillian's forehead. Akillian, crossing the plate with the tying run after a wild pitch, was hit by the ball thrown by the over-cager Husky catcher. The Harvard left fielder walked away under his own power, however, and no complications are expected...
There was a rustle as the orchestra buried its Schoenberg under the Spring Symphony scores. About midway through the first theme statement, Munch came down from his cager tiptoe level...
Democratic politicians and their supporters who are less prone to dabble with long range intrigues are cager to defeat Taft now, rather than in 1952. All C.I.O. and A.F.L. unions, the railroad brother-hoods, the mine workers, and the machinists have pooled their efforts in a United Labor League of Ohio which s working fiercely and spending lavishly to procure Ferguson's victory. Huge amounts of anti-Taft campaign literature--ranging from a 218-page "blackbook" summary of Taft's record in the Senate to a comic book denouncing the Republican--are being distributed daily. The whole election is being...