Word: eager
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Price of Admission. Why was De Gaulle holding off? In Britain, eager for a quick summit, the chagrined press cried "Vanity." De Gaulle's invitation to Khrushchev (which Khrushchev promptly accepted) was similarly treated by British editorialists as the general's wish to even the score with Macmillan and Eisenhower. Other critics suggested that De Gaulle wants to postpone the summit until France explodes its own A-bomb-which seems to be having troubles-so that it would not be the only nation at the summit outside the nuclear club...
Rockefeller-Hatfield ticket-eager to brief his hero on the same Oregon primary that in 1948 knocked hopeful Harold Stassen out of the Republican race and started Tom Dewey on the high road to the nomination...
Piling Up the Evidence. In Tokyo, police raided their own photo lab at headquarters, found stacks of erotic pictures that other cops had confiscated, reproduced, and sold in sets of five and ten to eager customers...
Thus, a swing to the Tories of a small fraction of the British electorate in marginal constituencies was enough to jump their Commons majority from 53 to 100 seats. Liberals, on the strength of their 1,600,000 popular vote, forecast with eager optimism that they would soon succeed Labor as the chief opposition party -a prediction that overlooked the fact that more than 40% of British voters stuck by Labor through the sweep. But the fact remained that for Britain's 53-year-old Labor Party it was a staggering defeat, threatening to open never-healed wounds, confronting...
...double play with the bases loaded in the eighth, fanning three men in the ninth. In the fourth game, he set down the White Sox without a hit in the eighth and ninth, was credited with the 5-4 win. By the sixth game Lawrence Sherry was so eager to pitch that he swaggered in from the bullpen in the fourth inning with unconcealed, cocky cheer. He shut out the White Sox the rest of the way, won the 9-3 game that gave the World Series to the Dodgers...