Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past six months Brazil has seethed with rumors that President Getulio Vargas, eager to present a democratic façade at the brave new world conferences (Mexico City, San Francisco), would hold free elections and remove his heavy hand from the country's press. Last week Vargas published his Cabinet Ministers' recommendations for a revised constitution and elections. He also ungagged the press...
Louise Randall (Rosalind Russell), a woman energetically eager to skate across the thin ice of feminine emancipation, was too much for her old-fashioned first husband (Donald Woods). When the "Recession" of 1921 lost him his job and got her one, he left her for another woman, telling her, on his way out: "If I died you'd just regard it as another way to develop your character." Louise's second husband, Harold Pierson (Jack Carson) was a happier match. Husband No. 1 had groaned, "Living with you and those kids was like living with Carrie Nation...
...handsome County Council Chambers, overlooking the Thames River, 240 trade-union delegates from 45 Allied and neutral countries, claiming to represent 50,000,000 workers, met for the first international labor congress in six years. The war was being won. In a dozen different tongues, labor was eager to say what it wanted from the postwar world...
Part of the menace, some Chileans feared, was nearer home. They muttered darkly about reactionary elements in their own country which might welcome Argentine help in overthrowing their democracy. The iron and coal in southern Chile were a tempting plum to Argentine militarists eager to promote their armament program. And around Valdivia was Chile's incompletely assimilated colony of Germans, not all of whom Chileans trust...
...Filipinos, soon due to receive their independence, expect to provide the U.S. with bases in exchange for protection, but they are not eager to have Manila turned into another Singapore. Actually, neither Manila Bay nor Subic Bay would be quite satisfactory, because they are on the wrong side of the island, can be entered only from the South China Sea. Leyte Bay would be better, but it is in the heart of the typhoon belt...