Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke, there was a transformation. The quietly efficient officer became the eloquent apostle of air power, for war and peace, voicing his creed and its docu mentation in eager New England ac cents...
Last week the car ferry Sainte Marie, queen of the icebreakers, pushed her broad armored nose through the Straits of Mackinac, heading for the Soo Locks. Behind her crept ten freighters, riding light or loaded with Ohio coal, all eager to be first to move on the Lakes in the year 1943. The icebreaker made it, but all the freighters were trapped in the icy fastness of Whitefish Bay. Even the Sainte Marie's propeller, which sucks water from under the ice so that its heavy bow can more readily pulverize it, could not free them-they just...
...Republican with the seed of the un born Progressive in me," young Ickes went back to the Record, became a political writer eager to help run the political mobsters out of Chicago. When he met stalwart, aggressive John Maynard Harlan, youthful aspirant for Chicago's mayoralty, Ickes began the first of a series of backbreaking, second-fiddle jobs under men he picked for their honesty and principles. Whether the party was Republican, Progressive or Democratic soon became immaterial ; Ickes went...
Besides, he prefers the lesser orchestras for their eager responsiveness. During the past season he has also directed the symphony orchestras of Seattle, Salt. Lake City, New Orleans and Montreal. A large section of the U.S. concertgoing public has heard Sir Thomas prove beyond question that the first requisite of a fine symphonic performance is not a great orchestra but a conductor of Sir Thomas' own shining ability...
Intense vitality and an eager reaching for vivid incidents combine in Hervey Allen's rapid, narrative style. Less admirable is his tendency to concentrate long, if lovingly, on surfaces. Like his fellow historian in American fiction, Robert Graves, Allen is weakest in his departures into romantic interludes. Unlike Graves, he has a passion for extremes; the 6 ft. 4 in. Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish...