Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Harlow is not particularly eager to hold scrimmages with the material he has on hand; he is afraid of injuries to the boys. In fact, in one corner of the field where a backfield was merely running through signals, someone incurred a nosebleed...
...widow, Chen Pi-chun, came before the court this week. Wang's closest political adviser, she henpecked her handsome husband and bullied her four grown children, three of whom have also been jailed. Chen Pi-chun was unrepentant, but she wrote her children that she was ready, even eager...
...enjoyed a personal popularity-it was almost indistinguishable from sympathy-that few Presidents had ever achieved. At one time this popular sympathy had been greater (according to Gallup polls) than F.D.R.'s at its highest. The plain people had cottoned to the plain Missourian who seemed so eager to admit his inadequacy, but so humbly trustful of democracy that he was willing to take on burdens and make quick decisions...
...Export-eager Great Britain was out first with plans for another World's Fair. In London last week, the British Government announced that "no money or effort" would be spared to guarantee that it "will surpass any previous international event of the same character." Probable date: 1951, centenary of London's great exhibition for which Prince Albert had the famed Crystal Palace built in Hyde Park...
...concentrated every form of pressure and political maneuvering to coerce all but the most recalcitrant of the Senators into hearty consent. Having thus hurdled the bulwark of traditional American isolationism, international planners peered with sparkling eyes into a future of unthrobbing war drums and furled battle flags. A people eager to believe took no stock in the gloomy fore-bodings of scattered pessimists...