Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with its 15-foot statue of Stalin-a bunch of fresh red roses at his feet-was only one example of careful propaganda. Other countries did as well. Thousands of pamphlets were distributed that first day to help spread the communistic word. What did the U.S.A. do? Nothing. The eager young people who appeared for us paid their own way to Prague, collected their own exhibit items. They were nice kids, sincere, enthusiastic. If they did not represent our country as many of us believe it should be represented, blame the Government. . . . We failed completely to grasp the opportunity...
...inches shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death by the French underground. Around Paris nightclubs, everybody knew eager, ardent Rubi...
After a week of eager expectations, the President, his family and official party were set for the 4,700-mile flight to Rio. The sleek new presidential DC-6, Independence, had been stocked with rubber life rafts, machetes, canned rations, rifles, insect repellents and parachutes-just in case of trouble...
Last May, a bustling young (29) voice coach, Kenneth Hieber, rounded up a group of young singers who were eager to be heard but did not have the $1,500 to put up for big-time debuts. They chipped in $25 apiece to cover costs, and, for the use of its 260-seat basement auditorium, gave the Greenwich Village Presbyterian Church a share in their company. Hieber got a veteran Broadway actor, Max Leavitt, to teach his singers how to act. Leavitt, in turn, gave the company a name. "Let's serve lemonade," he proposed, "and call it lemonade...
...first to discover the marvelous possibilities for profit in the Treasury's long-standing policy of pricing new issues so favorably that they would soon bring a premium in the market. Since all banks were eager to get more than their allotments of bank-eligible securities, an individual like Hosford could borrow the money to buy as much as $1 million worth on no more collateral than $10,000, sell the bonds at a handsome profit as soon as they rose. For example, if a $100 par bond rose to $100⅜, the $10,000 could bring a profit...