Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treaty will go into effect, for 20 years, when a majority of the signers have ratified. The framers of the pact labeled it a defensive alliance, permitted by Article 51 of the U.N. Charter. Western Europe had been eager to learn the extent of U.S. military commitment, in case one or more of the pact nations should be attacked by "an aggressor." The commitment (Article Five) provides that if one or more of the treaty nations should be attacked by an aggressor, each of the others will, individually or collectively, take whatever measures it deems necessary against the aggressor "including...
...situation is probably not as remarkable as it sounds, for with more than six weeks until the opening race the boatings are anything but definite. In fact the secret of the Demise of the Varsity Crew probably goes no deeper than the fact that right now the eager sophomores have he jump on their varsity competitors because they have been training harder and longer--some since last September...
This season eager Yale undergraduates and townspeople have crammed Payne Whitney gym to watch slender, 6 ft. 3 Tony Lavelli shoot baskets. He was as far from the old "Pudge" Heffelfinger mold in Yale athletes as was tiny footballer Albie Booth. For one thing, he was apt to be shy in a crowd; for another, what he really wanted to be was a musician. A competent piano and accordion player already, he hopes "to pick up some day in the musical comedy composing field where Cole Porter and Irving Berlin leave off." But with his long fingers Tony Lavelli could...
...mill. After talking local citizens into adding $80,000 of their own money to his, he bought the mill. During a real-estate boom, Love sold the mill's land and buildings at a small profit, then moved its machinery to a new $200,000 plant built by eager-beaver boosters in Burlington, N.C. There he branched out into rayon, then an infant industry...