Word: eager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Welch said he would not have considered parting with so much of his collection as recently as a year ago, he is now eager for the Sackler to house his treasures so that students may have access to them...
...with, the Scopes trial is not the great fable the rather fictional Inherit the Wind made it out to be. The instigators of the trial were not bluenosed know-nothings wanting to persecute some poor teacher for teaching evolution. They were officials of the American Civil Liberties Union so eager for a test case to overturn a new Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of evolution that they promised to pay the expenses of the prosecution! The A.C.L.U. advertised for a volunteer and found one John Scopes, football coach and science teacher, willing to take the rap. He later said...
...when I first arrived at Harvard, there was this kid from a small town in Maine who lived downstairs from me in Mass Hall. Something about his open, genuine and honest demeanor earned him the respect of our entire proctor group within the first few weeks. He was always eager to lend a helping hand, whether it was moving day, study breaks or listening to first year angst...
...Also, the friendly confines of the Yale bowl, even filled with its share of Harvard fans, will surely be an emotional lift for the Bulldogs eager to avenge its loss the last time The Game came to New Haven...
...fiscal year 2000, Congress has approved six short-term spending bills - quick fixes to keep the government up and running without a budget. Today, says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Matthew Cooper, Republicans are just happy to escape relatively unscathed, with or without a last-minute victory. "They're eager to go back to their constituents and tell them they've cut the budget," Cooper says. Never mind by how much...