Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy ambulances are on constant lookout along the Angeles Crest highway, from which Southern California's most perilous ski slopes are easily available to both duffers and experts; their job, to aid the overly-eager novices to the local infirmaries...
...Austin, station KTBC gently but firmly resisted an eager offer from Cook's Funeral Home to buy 30-second commercials before & after the Lux Radio Theater's presentation of "Nobody Lives Forever...
...interested in it commercially. At present it is made only for Meals for Millions Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles which sends relief food to Europe and Asia. But the news has got around. Last week watchful Los Angeles housewives were crashing the Foundation's office, eager for a cheap substitute for high-priced meat...
...time out from her breadwinning chores to write a novel (Harriet Hume). Sometimes she collaborated on satirical sketches (Lions and Lambs, The Rake's Progress) with Cartoonist David Low. She managed to get abroad a good deal, and a shimmering list of continental hosts and hostesses were always eager to entertain her. The posh social life of Paris, the spas and resorts, which Miss West described in loving detail in The Thinking Reed, was first-hand reporting. When in 1937 the British Council sent Miss West to Yugoslavia and she recorded her experience in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
...Eager to push forward with a plan for dividing Palestine, the United Nations has yet to offer an acceptable method of insuring the partition's success. The authors of the plan place their hope for peaceful government during the early life of the nascent states in an armed, locally recruited militia. In the event of an Arab uprising, any native constabulary would prove hopelessly inadequate to keep peace among the warring factions. With this in view, the U.N. cannot neglect the possibility of a concerted Arabian effort to crush the new Jewish state. By failing to provide an effective security...