Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard an eager question...
...itself a goal of $6,000,000 in gifts from alumni and friends, asked its most distinguished literary alumnus to write "a piece" for the campaign. Instead, Callaghan turned out The Varsity Story (Macmillan; $2.50), a rambling and nostalgic novel filled with crotchety old professors, bright young scientists and eager students...
...natives were eager to learn, but not always easy to teach. At first, he found, students from one island would refuse to mingle with those from another. Also, they had a horror of losing face: a teacher scarcely dared flunk students lest they refuse ever to go home again. Even some of O'Brian's alumni were troublesome. A few got back to their villages and refused to do any work; some even tried to overrule their chiefs. Others flouted ancient taboos in their parents' faces...
...Wrong." In Paris, the French National Assembly opened its 1949 session, but things did not fall into their familiar pattern. The 183 Communist deputies had been violent and insulting all last year.* At this session the party emissaries eager-beavered about the lobbies spreading good fellowship. Loud-voiced Arthur Ramette, the Communists' interrupter-heckler, spoke gently: "All we want is peace ... If we sometimes get excited, it's only because we are fighting for peace...
...staying ahead of Ford; Buick's Ivan L. Wiles, 50, a tall, greying statistician who moved up from comptroller into Red Curtice's job; Oldsmobile's Sherrod E. Skinner, 52, a dark, heavyset, prim engineer; and Pontiac's Harry J. Klingler, 59, lean, angular and eager, a bow-tied salesman who always has one more funny story up his sleeve when Wilson runs...