Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Sébille was making a lecture tour of some Belgian resorts, where he preached intimatism to eager listeners. Said he: "Between speeches I found the time to become half of a couple...
...This eager import of modernities (even a grandfather's clock that Liberia ordered had to be modern) was an expression of the country's deep desire to catch up with other nations...
...Saroyan's deadpan description of its plot: "The story of a man who spends all his life in penitentiaries while society tries to determine his guilt, which appears to be that he was born out of wedlock. When his innocence is established, he is 80 years old and eager to find a wife and raise a family. On the first day of his freedom he dies in the arms of a girl of eleven who is placed in a house of correction where she dies in childbirth. Her infant son is placed in a foundling home where...
Koreans liked him. When he appeared in public, young Koreans crowded around, as eager to see Lyuh as American kids are to shake hands with Babe Ruth. He was head of the Korean Amateur Athletic Association, helped make the marathon Korea's national sport...
Editor Andrews had consulted his conscience too. "In view of what you say," he wrote, "I am bound to regard you as a declared and eager Communist, hostile to [our] main political doctrines.... I must, therefore, give you a month's notice...