Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's food problem started very early in fact it was the school's first problem and quickly developed into a major crisis. The Pilgrim Fathers, eager for as many parental restrictions as possible, decreed that all students must eat at a common table, an insistence which plagued administrators for the next 200 years. With Mr. Nathaniel Eaton as the school's entire faculty, students ate in his home. He was charged with serving mostly "porrige and pudding, and that very homely ... without butter or suet." The students maintained they received "hasty pudding with goat's dung...
Austrians, who are eager to get a treaty and get rid of their occupation armies, thought few essential Russian demands remained that could not be settled by compromise. Barring another last-minute Russian switch, it looked as if the Austrians would before long have their wish...
...Reds keep telling the West Germans that they would be better off united with their Eastern brothers. Communist agents whisper into the eager ear of discontent: "Just wait until we come." A heavy rattling of the Russian saber last week reinforced that whisper. Moscow, it was reported, was sending Marshal Ivan S. Konev, one of Russia's top military men, to head its Eastern zone army...
What would be the practical results of recognition? While it might conceivably strengthen would do so even more, not only driving the Chinese closer to Russia, but also giving the Soviets good Propaganda material to use on the natives of southeast Asia. The Russians would be eager to claim that non-recognition is proof that the United States only recognizes governments of whose polities it approves...
Ordinarily, such news would have set Wall Street's eager speculators grabbing for Olin's stock. But Olin's 56-year-old President John M. Olin, and Vice President Spencer T. Olin, 48, his brother, have prudently kept most of the 2,000,000 shares of unlisted common stock to themselves, their gross and profit a secret...