Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concur with his generally conservative Cabinet and approve the bill, he will not only commit his party to a course almost parallel to the Republican route, but also will keep the desperate unions away from the polls next year, or possibly tempt them to form a third party under eager Henry Wallace...
...Communist weekly, France Nouvelle, shrieked dutifully: "French independence seriously threatened by the dollar kings!" In the U.S., meanwhile, Henry Wallace and his political siblings continued to tell Americans about how wicked the British and French imperialists are. From Canada came a sharp, short snort of laughter. During its eager emanations of anti-Americana, Radio Moscow had recently quoted the Montreal Times as writing that U.S.-Canadian military ties were merely part of Canada's "final subservience to the U.S.A." It was true-the Montreal Times had indeed published suggestions as to how the city could defend itself against...
Acenstomed in those past summers to the din and bustle of a massive heard of new registrants eager to speed up their college education, Mem Hall will feel the first indication of a postwar slack-off today when 264 new veteran students, returning undergraduates, and special students fill out the "necessary forms...
Durham, a Chicago fabricator and steel broker, joined the daisy chain through a broker named McAleer, who phoned him long distance. If Durham could be in New York that night, said McAleer, he could buy 100,000 tons of steel. Too eager to pack, Durham grabbed a spare shirt, flew to New York, and hurried to the rendezvous in a suite in Manhattan's Hampshire House...
Husband Bickford, who looks rather like a Beethoven left out in the rain, was once a great painter, but has gone blind. He is unpleasantly eager to make friends with the man who is carrying on with his wife, though he coldly hints his awareness of what's up. Coast Guardsman Ryan slowly comes to realize 1) that the painter is holding Joan trapped in a sadistic relationship, 2) that Joan is no lady in distress but a bone-bred tramp, 3) that the pair of them are exploiting him for ugly, mysterious reasons of their...