Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union organizer, Bevin knew that the only way to alter historical processes was by organization. As a Socialist, Bevin recognized the meaning of the satellite bloc Russia is forming on her borders. He has long been eager to balance it with a Socialist grouping in Western Europe. Communists-but not the Kremlin-have said that such a move would be a threat to Russia. Bevin told the House of Commons that he had "deliberately raised" the question at Moscow last December with Stalin: "You want friendly neighbors. Well, in my street I want friendly neighbors too." He reminded Stalin...
...eared copy of the one-page North Korea Communist mouthpiece Chawng Lo (Right Way) turned up in the U.S. zone last week. From it, South Koreans, eager for news of their northern countrymen, learned of a two-day meeting in P'yongyang to plan a provisional government for the Soviet-occupied area. The self-government murmurs had strong overtones of the Internationale...
...College merged Lincoln and Horace Mann in 1943. The result was a comparatively un-daring, scholastically successful prep school which trained an intelligent, prosperous few for college. Teachers College decided that it could spend Mr. Rockefeller's $3,000,000 better on public schools, many of which were eager to experiment, and whose students were more representative. Horace Mann-Lincoln will shut next year unless parents can take it over and move it somewhere else. Said the school's executive director: "It's just one of those tragedies...
Heavy snows kept Oregon lumber camps closed during most of January and February. Strikes crippled production in the pine forests of the Pacific Northwest and the redwoods of California. Everywhere, lumberjacks grown used to soft city ways in high-paying jobs in war plants were none too eager to head back to the low pay and hard life of the woods. Those who did go back found a lack of portable sawmills, crawler trucks, etc., although lately the Civilian Production Administration has been handing lumbermen priorities to get them...
Worth Every Cent. When the big day and the Special came, 85 Simmians were at the depot. All along the line others waited. At level crossings the Special wheezed to a stop, picked up sleighfuls of eager farm folk. It all got so confusing that a railway official laboriously marked the crossings on a map so that the engineer would know where to stop on the way home...