Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predecessors since the breach between Canterbury and Rome, had done. Nonetheless ... he was fully convinced that for the cause of the solidarity of all Christians and the good of mankind his imperative duty was to establish contact between himself and the Pope. He was inspired by the eager hope that the action he was taking would open the way for official and effective cooperation between Roman and non-Roman Christians in all matters that did not involve dogmatic principles and historical conflicts which divide Christendom. The way being opened, he felt immediate steps might be taken for such cooperation...
...than 6,000 samples of folk music on a primitive Edison machine-and each used this folk music as a base, though what each did with the music was different. Bartok loved stubborn dissonances and wild rhythms; Kodaly preferred to be lyrical and simple. Says Kodaly: "Bartok was more eager to find new-effects and possibilities. I was content with less. I am still less curious than Bartok...
Early in his Hollywood career, the town gossips began dividing Hughes's women friends into two classes: 1) the established celebrities-Billy Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Bette Davis, Gloria Baker, Ruth Moffett, et al.-with whom he was seen in public; and 2) the young, eager and not too prudish unknowns with whom he was almost never seen in public. Hughes has a harsh word for the latter: he calls them "crows." But even from them he fears a rebuff. It is part of Meyer's job to see that the green light is up before Hughes...
Last week Novelist Waugh was tickling toes and cutting throats again. The Loved One, his first novel published in the U.S. since Brideshead, was in the eager hands of U.S. readers, most of whom did not know whether to gasp, hoot or holler at the uncomfortable feeling that they had been smudged with soot from a crematory. The title was Waugh's creamy trade name for a corpse. A tale of love and suicide among the morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist...
...psychological lift; he would unquestionably attract millions of "independent voters." Democrats had hoped to make hay out of Republican failure to push through reclamation projects in the West. But it would be futile to play that game against Republican Earl Warren, one of the foremost spokesmen of the eager-beaver West...