Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inter-lake triangle has not been fully explored, but anthropologists are eager to give it a thorough going-over. In its little valleys they hope to find proof that here the first farmers tilled the soil, and that from here their revolutionary mode of life spread by migration and "cultural osmosis" to most of the inhabited world...
...lovers are as fresh and eager after their long journey as when they were merely a pair of simple Picts. Unlike many medieval heroes and heroines (e.g., Lancelot and Guinevere), Tristan and Iseult are nearer to human than heroic size. Iseult the Fair has a whole bag of tricks up her flowing sleeves. Tristan is probably the most versatile hero of legendary history: he is not only death to dragons, but a first-rate harpist and singer and an ace huntsman and seaman. He is, notes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "the Admirable Crichton of medieval romance [and] it must be regretfully...
...responsibility of the press to stimulate public discussion on this vital matter and to educate the people as rapidly as possible. Where security permits, my colleagues are eager to help with scientific information. It was our hope in developing the bomb that it would be a great force for world cooperation and peace...
...Budapest municipal elections the non-socialist Small Holders' Party, which advocated breaking up Hungary's large estates into small privately owned holdings, won control of the City Council with 122 seats against 104 for the Communist-Social Democrat coalition. Much of its support came from people eager to vote for the only well-organized non-Communist party. The Small Holders' leader, Zoltan Tildy, jubilantly predicted that in the national election next month all Hungary would follow the capital...
...wonder insecticide" that had millions of dollars worth of free advertising, is a very good insecticide. But it will not do everything. In too small quantities, it will not do anything. To eager manufacturers of bug sprays with "flagrant" claims, the Department of Agriculture has said sternly: label your products properly and give accurate directions. To the bug-plagued public, the department has offered some advice...