Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the U.S. clicking out war materials, Charlie Wilson is eager to get on to his next big job: to get G.E. ready for peace. Said he: "We've got to build practically from the ground up. . . . Some of the biggest plants (refrigerators, electric ranges, radios, toasters), have been taken out of existence as plants. Machine layouts have been completely removed. Conveyors have been dismantled. All of these have to be put together again. It's one hell...
...senseless (and sinful) that so many men should die for his earthly glory. To Krishna, Arjuna recited the evils of war as they have always been known to men who have always made wars. "O Krishna," he cried, "at the sight of these my kinsmen assembled here eager to give battle, my limbs fail and my mouth is parched . . . . I desire neither victory nor empire nor even any pleasure. . . . I would not kill though they should kill me. . . . Far better would it be for me if [they] should slay me in the battle unarmed and unresisting...
...Mort aux Boches! They were more than eager to talk to the Americans. They said the Americans would be welcomed generally by the French patriots. The Germans, they said, had been very correct in their social relations with the French, but had eaten the cream of the crop and had compelled the Frenchmen to work on beach fortifications, and the French women to do their laundry, for which they paid...
...streets you meet a German soldier about every other minute. Now they are all either old men, 40 to 50 years, or very young, under 20. The old ones leave you alone, but the young ones, especially those back from the Eastern front, are tough and rough. They are eager to strike you on the nose for anything, or have you say something they can put you in a concentration camp...
This was the first step, Attorney Murphy told reporters, toward the cracking of a powerful counterfeiting syndicate which "could have almost wrecked the nation's anti-inflationary ration system." Pleased as the agents were with their first step, and eager as they were to break the ring and discover its backers, nothing interested them more acutely than the artist who had made the whole business possible...