Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of revolt and Thurmond had his eye on the Senate seat of Olin D. Johnston for 1950. He probably had more to gain than to lose by running as the rebels' candidate for President. He was picked because he was the most willing and eager. Fielding Wright, 53-year-old lawyer, who is as smooth and cold as a hardboiled egg -and whose home town of Rolling Fork, Miss., has more Negroes than whites-was glad to run as the vice presidential candidate...
Even when amplified, the mosquito's love song is only faintly audible to the human ear. But to male mosquitoes it is apparently overwhelming. Dr. Kahn turned on his loudspeaker. A wave of excitement hummed through the swamp. On eager wings the males zoomed toward the trap. Like mariners wrecked by Lorelei's song, the male mosquitoes smacked against the electrified screen...
This production of "Troilus and Cressida" will be experimental in character, with scenery and costuming planned along abstract lines. HTW is also eager to use the facilities of the first real theater in which they have ever played...
...Eager, but Disappointed. At the start of the week, his throat was raw. He had almost shouted himself out of voice. The hourly swabbings of his throat only helped make his temper raw. At a midnight stop at Ogden, Utah, he interrupted his blistering attack on Congress to scold and silence a group of noisy boys who had climbed a nearby tree. In San Francisco and Oakland he was bitterly disappointed by unenthusiastic audiences and by the absence of crowds along the sidewalks. In Oakland he took it out on cameramen who popped their flashes at him. The camera corps...
...President and his advisers are among Tom Dewey's most eager radio listeners-and his most disappointed. The Democratic National Committee's poverty also angers the presidential party; while the Republicans and Henry Wallace can afford radio time, Candidate Truman goes unheard on the networks...