Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cling to those ideals which those great Americans who have gone before us gave unto us. ... I shall ever be mindful of the fact that if our community is to experience a resumption of prosperity . . . such resumption can only come when ... the proud plumes of smoke from the eager fires of our industries are backward blown, when our forests ring with the harmonious din of the woodsman's ax, when our mills resound with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars...
...Nebraska, where the primary election was expected to be a straw in the wind of this year's farm votes, ripe and eager was Thomas E. Dewey, silent and aloof was his rival. Senator Arthur Vandenberg. Twice "Buster" Dewey had invaded Nebraska, speechifying, conferring, shaking every hand within reach. Senator Vandenberg, though he was backed by most of the regular party leaders, had made it clear that any nomination must come to him "from the deliberative judgment of the American people." The best his campaign managers could think up was to bluster that young Mr. Dewey was pushing...
...small part of Kimball's success (and a potent budget-balancing aid) is his ability to find eager, knowing young assistants who work hard for small pay. Several of his curators-Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, Henry Clifford, Boies Penrose -are so well off that Kimball affectionately calls them "my millionaires." Down into their pockets dig these three for many of the museum's top-flight special exhibitions. Even more significant is a growing list of "my young men" who now head important U. S. museums and got their first museum training under Kimball at Philadelphia. Some of them: Director...
...Russian Gasoline." In Washington last week State Department officials, eager to find out the situation in the Soviet oil fields, conferred with three U. S. petroleum engineers who up to a few weeks ago were working in the Soviet Union at Ufa, Saratov and Grozni in the Caucasus...
...praised Britain's sea heroes, the patient men on patrol, riskers in convoy, victors at the River Plate, raiders of the Altmark. Warmly he lauded the Air Force; women who have lost their loves and sons, who fight with knitting needles and save every scrap; eager men who could not wait to be drafted; civil servants burning themselves and midnight oil; employers taking on unfamiliar chores; laborers sweeping away the concessions they had won in years of picket and strike; farmers, plowing shorthanded, clerks lending their savings, children leaving their homes...