Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fields and his nose emerged for their seventh annual round against Charlie McCarthy, brandished some new taunts on NBC's air ("You woodpecker's blue-plate!"), and retired leaving a large audience eager for the eighth round...
...rather frank realism which goes on just behind the eyes and the lines of this eager young couple is abetted by some excellent rawboned Western street scenes and by some unusually vivid uses of sound (coyotes, snores, a neighing horse) and camera (scrambled focus for excitement and intoxication) to startle and amuse. John Wayne manages, more toughly if less charmingly than Gary Cooper in his early days, to create a sort of Rocky Mountain Jean Gabin. Jean Arthur, who has the brunt of the comedy to handle, is one of the most attractive handlers in the business, but undermines some...
...relief plan is simple: to cheat Manhattan's social heavy cream out of its white ties and rhinestones. But as time wears on, Gambler Grant, who is of Greek extraction, develops a tender conscience as a result of the courage of his compatriots and his love for eager Heiress Day. So he heroically double-crosses his pals, recovers from a consequent slug in the midriff and renders himself worthy of Cinemactress Day by joining the Merchant Marine...
...fought Arnim south of Bizerte. There was Lieut. General George Patton's great Seventh Army-three infantry divisions, an airborne division and an armored division thoroughly experienced in overwater invasion. There were also General Henri Honore Giraud's 200,000 Frenchmen, equipped with U.S. weapons, ready and eager to fight for the liberation of France...
...Eager faces turned toward Boston with a set of preconceived conceptions--beans, cods, Cabots, Scollay Square, Cocoanut Grove, some place called Radcliffe, life overlooking the "Yahd," steeped in scholarship--but we soon discovered that we were still in the Navy...