Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's press conference, newsmen were sure they noted a change in Harry Truman. For the first time in his 291 days in the White House, the even-voiced Missourian in the trim, double-breasted brown suit seemed eager to lash out at his critics...
Associates thought they saw an unusual irritation over trifles, an excessive enthusiasm for getting out for an evening of poker.* The man who never wanted to be President was wistfully eager for the vacation cruise off Florida which he had planned for next week...
...tons of coal must reach Europe from the Americas before July. Needy countries will call for other foods, clothing, fuels, building supplies and machinery. Long port delays, irregular schedules, return trips in ballast, diversions to out-of-the-way points, make this type of carrying unpopular with private shipowners, eager to get back to lucrative regular runs. It will be a job largely for the nations with "surplus" ships-more ships than they need to carry their own trade...
Down South there was Winston Churchill, burrowing his toes in Florida's sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
Pope Pius XII last week challenged the unholy alliance between Atheist Joseph Stalin and his tame churchman, the Patriarch Alexei of Moscow, head of the Orthodox Church in Russia. The Pope charged that Russia was ruthlessly stamping out Roman Catholicism in Ruthenia, implied that Alexei was Stalin's eager catspaw...