Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who has had to look into the eager, happy faces of anxious relatives and patients who have just read that streptomycin is practically a sure cure for tuberculosis, explain as gently as possible that the wonder drug has its limitations and is unsuitable for their particular sufferer, and watch hope change into sickening despair, can attest to the damage done by overenthusiastic writing on such topics...
...forth between Sweden and Germany; he arranged for the exchange of war prisoners, started negotiations with Heinrich Himmler for Germany's surrender. He remained true to the Scout motto: Alltid Redo (Be Prepared). When the U.N. appointed him its mediator in Palestine, he was not only ready, but eager...
Just the same, eager Indian war correspondents sent back reports which turned up under headlines like NIZAM'S FORTRESS TOWNS FALL LIKE NINEPINS. The reports failed to mention that the fortresses had been built in the 15th Century...
...years later, back at Williams and still eager to be a Greek, Morton had his "heart's desire" fulfilled. But his stomach's desire was not. Morton endured fraternity food as long as he could, then transferred his patronage to the Williams Inn. By this week, 29 years later, Morton had decided that his stomach had been a sounder guide than his heart. In the Atlantic Monthly, of which he is now associate editor, Morton paid his respects to Fraternity Row in an essay that the Greeks would probably have several words...
...hours of broadcasting, the Network hits the airways at an eager 8 a.m. with an hour and a half offering called Reveille in Swingtime. Weekday evening broadcasts, from seven o'clock to midnight, a Saturday afternoon cocktail matinee, and a Sunday evening concert from 8 to 11 fill out the hours...