Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Awareness. Canada felt a new and vibrant awareness of national identity. It showed itself in the eager popular acceptance of recent proposals for a distinctive Canadian citizenship and for a distinctive Canadian flag (TIME, Nov. 5; Nov. 19). It showed itself in the snap and swagger of veteran Canadian regiments marching up their Main Streets, and in the cheers to which they marched. The new spirit could be seen in the words of Prime Minister King a fortnight ago in the House of Commons: "We do expect and will expect that this country shall be given full recognition [in] matters...
Taken together, the Pope's two acts, on successive days, staked out for the Church its biggest religious and political role in world affairs since the Crusades. If all roads no longer led to Rome, Pius was yet eager that the roads that did lead there be used to the fullest...
Perhaps by giving two thankless jobs in a row to Norman Armour (who was said to have been eager for the Paris assignment), the State Department had used poor diplomacy toward one of its ablest diplomats. At a time when the foreign service desperately needed good men, it could have used him longer...
...Hollywood-manufactured sequel to See Here, Private Hargrove, but it happens to be funnier than the original. The war, as it was fought by eager, incompetent Corporal Hargrove (Robert Walker) and cynical con-man Private Mulvehill (Keenan Wynn), bears only a casual scenic resemblance to real war. The France they trudge through is a mythical landscape. But Hargrove and Mulvehill seem far more real than many of the screen's dead-earnest soldier heroes...
Through the Manhattan office doors that hide some of the shapeliest forms in the U.S. last week scurried a Columbia psychologist, eager to test the brain power of Harry Conover's cover girls. It was a heady experience...