Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Griffin recounts a visit to Alfred's house. When Alfred came to the door, he was carrying cash in hand, eager to hand it over to the panhandler he expected to be at the door...
When two candidates are so similar, voters can turn to their respective styles. Gore's eager-beaver, combative-yet-folksy manner contrasted with Bradley's didactic sternness Wednesday night...
...things exotically Asian done up with clean lines and simple geometric shapes (triangular ceiling sconces, cube chairs). The screens that separate the serving area from the dining area are like Japanese privacy screens, their slatted design evoking "exotic" bamboo. Various Ming-style vases and tureens once lined up like eager Maoists atop the salad bar, but have since disappeared in a fit of Amerocentrism. A rather unflattering painting of a beaming (and vaguely sickened) Buddha watches blissfully over the entire proceedings, as "offerings" of fruits and sweets (the traditional gifts given to the god) are heaped at his feet...
...there is a secret to running a school in post-Columbine America, it is to make sure the place keeps no secrets from you. Since schools are populated by adolescents--that eager, suspicious, alienated, hyperbolic cohort--this alone is a full-time job. "There are two directions that schools are going in: to improve the climate and build trust, or to have metal detectors and transparent lockers," says assistant principal John Raimondo...
...found evidence to support an espionage indictment against Lee, Justice officials are considering charging him under a lesser statute that makes it a federal felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to handle national defense information with "gross negligence." Richardson and FBI officials are said to be eager to see Lee indicted, not only to sanction him for downloading the legacy codes but also to pressure him to talk about why he did so and with whom, if anyone, he shared the data...