Word: eager
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soldiers of Fort Stewart are feeling a mix of anger, betrayal and fear as they face an increasingly uncertain future in Iraq. At Gilly's the active soldiers sitting near Blackman jump in, clearly eager for a chance to vent. Some express disgust. But wherever they cast the blame, they all agree on one thing: though a handful of U.S. troops may be responsible for Abu Ghraib, it is the thousands of servicemen and -women who are in Iraq and who, like the troops from the Rock of the Marne, may be going back there soon who have to face...
...eager to keep Eats breezy, Truss writes in a tiresomely jokey style. But her book teems with amusing and appalling examples of mangled punctuation (starting with her title, which comes from a gag about a zoology entry on the panda), offers a lot of clear and helpful advice, and takes delightful detours into history. Example: her paean to Aldus Manutius the Elder, the 15th century Venetian printer who invented italics and first used the semicolon and whose babies, says Truss, she wishes she could have...
...Indira Gandhi, thrust him to the head of India's leading political dynasty. On the day Indira died, Sonia predicted the same fate for her husband. "I begged him," she later recounted. "I said he too would be killed." A suicide bomber assassinated Rajiv in 1991. Sonia was not eager to take his place, but in 1997, with the Congress Party floundering, she relented. With her victory, her son Rahul, 33, declared that the family had finally laid its ghosts to rest...
Hyman, who chaired the science group, said new science proposals would be solicited in the fall. Faculty are eager to begin building the new centers, he said, although no timeframe has yet emerged for science construction...
...those questions will be incorporated into the University’s planning is an ever-present issue for residents eager to have...