Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chaperoning is not enforceable; the only actual checkups are made by zealous or the Yard police, who are eager to climb the dizzy heights of Matthews or Thayer on what may well be a fool's errand, or to peer in rooms suspiciously at embarrassed residents and their lady friends. If couples want to evade the law, there is little to stop them. "Chaperons" may suggest a stern body of older men who sit stiffly on the edge of their chairs and rivet their eyes on guilty pairs, but they are actually no more than friends from across the hall...
Frau Bracht knew that "Turk, 47" would draw many eager applications from German women. There were calls for German men, too. "Brazilian girl, 27" and "Hungarian girl, 23, relatives in South America" were looking for husbands last week. The price: 500 marks down and 500 upon marriage. For an extra 100 marks, applicants could attend the "social evenings" to dance, sip red wine, cocktails and gaze at prospective partners...
Wellesley's greener pastures will become a figurative stone's throw from eager Harvard men Saturday midnight, when the first bus of a newly-inaugurated transportation service direct to the shores of Lake Waban leaves Harvard Square...
Name-calling is only the logical end of what has been brewing since the cloudy October morning a year ago when the VTW popped full-grown from the skulls of its progenitors. It all started when a galaxy of eager veterans poured back into the Dramatic Club roster last fall, ready for action but not for what they called a "tightly-knit social organization." The older men, among them pre-war HD members, set up their own "veterans' workshop" producing unit, chose a play, and were promptly read out of the club for "insubordination" by the insulted hierarchy. Pulling into...
...part of the past week hitting each other around. Contrary to popular opinion, this is not the greatest fun in the world, but according to 'Harold Kopp, who supervises the mayhem, it is absolutely necessary. As the Varsity line coach, Hal has the job of molding this group of eager but largely inexperienced athletes into a forward wall capable of holding its own in Ivy League competition...