Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maryland farm, where he had hidden the pumpkin papers, Whittaker Chambers sat in an easy chair near a big Christmas tree that curled against the ceiling. Before him last week sat three eager listeners: South Dakota's Karl Mundt, California's Richard Nixon of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the committee's retiring chief investigator, Robert Stripling. Chambers, under oath, puffed on a pipe as he gave further testimony in the Communist spy inquiry and interspersed it with his observations on the evidence already gathered...
...orchestra glided into the opening bars of Sergei Prokofiev's score and the curtain went up on Cinderella. Then, for two hours, an eager-to-be-enchanted audience found plenty of reason to be. With her thistledown lightness and grace, pert, piquant Moira Shearer (dancing star of the movie Red Shoes) danced well and looked the part of Cinderella. Her two ugly sisters, one of them danced by Choreographer Ashton himself, couldn't have been uglier, and her prince (Michael Somes) couldn't have been more charming. Reported the London Daily Mail: "The curtain calls seemed...
...fellows sure went to a lot of trouble," he claims. "I can't figure out why so many were so eager to beat this morning's opening." Over 100 assorted people have at one time or another tried to make it past the front door in the last few months...
...crisp banknotes to take care of them. Sure enough, when he checked out, there was an expectant echelon of busboys, waiters, doormen, bellmen, telephone girls and elevator operators all lined up with outstretched hand by the hotel desk. Racing for his taxicab, the diplomat slapped a bill into each eager hand along the line and finally reached the street. Then he turned, stopped, stared in dismay for two seconds and returned to snatch back the last bill. It had been pressed into the proffered hand of Turkey's President Inonu, who had just dropped by to bid the Indian...
That made 178-lb. Ezzard Charles, by default, the most probable candidate to fight Joe Louis. But after the fight, Ezz seemed hone too eager to claim his newly won privilege. "My goodness, not yet," he said. "I'd have to be a lot sharper if I fought the champ." Besides, who was he to give his hero the last shove? "He's still the greatest," said Ezz. "I want him to retire undefeated...