Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under strict orders from gentlemanly Owner Field never to refer to his own or Colonel McCormick's war record, refrained from replying in kind. But Chicagoans, appalled at Colonel McCormick's loud bad manners, were eager last week to recite the bare facts...
...whites out of their land in a railroad hoax. It was his own conscience when, realizing the hoax and achingly needing money, he had to decide what to do. More dubiously, the New South was his brother's ice-hearted, erogenous widow Rachel, willing to back the hoax, eager to watch men die, dallying with a nincompoop Yankee officer whom Melancthon felt a need to kill in honorable duel...
...these Negro cadets, 57% had had technical studies in school, the average had had three and a half years of college. Of the first 81 cadets accepted, 44 were from the South, 26 from the North, six from the Middle West, five from the Far West. They were anxious, eager, studied hard, flew hard, busted buttons bulging their chests at inspection...
...where public opinion is no less eager to get on with the war than in Britain, there has been less general clamor for a second front, more disposition to leave the decision as to time and place to military men. But last week the St. Louis Star-Times, in a front-page editorial was hard-hitting as Michael Foot's, came out for a second front- now or never...
...Japs are so eager to dispose of their rubber and tin surpluses that, according to one account, they are thinking of trying to sell them, through South American intermediaries, to a well-heeled onetime customer...