Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blond, blue-eyed Governor Warren seems to radiate goodness and warmth. Impressed by his relaxed good nature, his evident simplicity, the eager "yes, yes" and "uh-huh, uh-huh" with which he indicates earnest interest in everything they have to say, his visitors often begin to fit him into a scheme of history. They see him not merely as a perfect political candidate, but as the forerunner in U.S. politics of a new era of friendly men to succeed the recent era of angry men-the era of the Burt Wheelers, the Fiorello LaGuardias, the Huey Longs, the Harold Ickeses...
...Tyrrhenian Sea lay calm. Somewhere above the moonlit clouds purred Allied planes. To the east, two miles away, loomed Italy's dark shape. Landing craft churned towards Nettuno's eroded, frosted beach. Tense, eager men jumped into the icy rollers, waded ashore...
...Scraps that fell from Hitler's table into Hungary's eager mouth: Czechoslovakia's Rutheniaand parts of Slovakia, Yugoslavia's Voivodina, Rumania's northern Transylvania...
...months, U.S. emissaries have been quietly sounding out Premier Stalin and other top Russians on such a pact. They have found them just as eager to buy as the U.S. is to sell. Negotiations have reached such a stage that Washington insiders whispered last week that President Roosevelt carried a rough draft of the pact in his pocket when he met Stalin in Teheran...
...response to the eager way the NROTC and V-12 House members payed their House dues, the joint Kirkland and Eliot House committee decided to open the lid of its coffers and share the returns with its contributors. The result was a formal regimental ball that will have bell bottoms and blue suits all streaming towards Eliot House in order that they may join in the fun Saturday night...