Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cannibal War. In 1835 Don Carlos led a Spanish revolt, and Europe's powers were soon eager to take a hand. Under "the sacred principle" of nonintervention, the French soon intervened. (Nonintervention, said Talleyrand, is "a metaphysical and political term meaning about the same as intervention.") Chief of staff to the commander of France's international brigade was Legionnaire Bazaine. In campaigns which the British minister called "this cannibal war, these two-and-a-half years of lese humanite" Bazaine helped defeat reactionary Don Carlos and save Spain for Queen Isabella. When he led the French...
Lieut. Lawson was so eager to get going that the intensive training ("Our planes were in the air at 7 a.m. each morning and sometimes we'd still be at it at 10 p.m.") did not bother him. He thought the B-25 (North America's medium-range Mitchell bomber, stripped of its radio, bottom gun-turret and Norden bombsight) was a lively ship...
Little more than three weeks ago were so fresh, so eager and so ignorant. Now the WAVES of the Navy are more familiar with each other. To be sure we know there would be work and play but now we know the third ingredient--balance. Each morning finds us juggling the government's funds and trying to convince ourselves that women are perfectly capable of handling the Navy's money...
...kill themselves only when all hope of killing Americans was gone. But examination of the bodies revealed that many who chose death probably were not even wounded. They could have kept on fighting. They had plenty of ammunition left. They had raided American supply dumps for food. But so eager for death were they that they could not wait. The grenades they could have thrown against Americans were pressed against their bowels in honorable hara-kiri fashion...
...wrong, why he had been called to the "nut factory." His service record in the surface ships was clean. The psychiatrist's questions gave him no clues. But his answers and his scores in the preliminary written tests told the tale. The sailor was healthy, intelligent and eager for sub duty, but he was not the type. Within the hour, he was off the Base, his papers marked "immediate sea duty...