Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cigar-sucking Ed Prichard knew his job was done. Now slimmed down to a roseate 210 Ibs. (by dieting, not by wartime Washington) he tossed his law books into a bag, went back to his home in Paris, Ky. He will practice law in Lexington and Frankfort, turn his eager eagle eye on the politics of his home state. At Harvard "Prich" had been particularly famed for one boast: that he would some day be Governor of Kentucky. This he branded last week as a base canard; he just intends to "run for something." With a fair show of diffidence...
Familiarity with the eager German wom en, the fresh-faced German young, bred forgetfulness of Belsen and Buchenwald and Oswieczim. The bodies were buried; the memory was all but buried. Even at the trial of Belsen's "beast," Josef Kr#228;mer and his staff, the evoked horror was stale...
Outwardly, at least, there were no signs of such a thing. The Japanese continued docile, polite, reasonably eager to please. G.I.s were beginning to fraternize with Japanese civilians...
Industrialists, bogged down with orders, begged for manpower. Servicemen, eager to work, begged to be demobilized. To bosses and workers it seemed a simple issue: Britain needed the goods and they were ready to make them. Then why the delays? This week the thorny, interlocking problems of reconversion and demobilization confronted the new British Government with its first real home-front crisis...
Buenos Aires' plush, proper Plaza Hotel was overrun by the multitude. Its plush was ruffled, its hush profaned by thousands of eager Argentines who stormed its glass-and-wrought-iron doors, jammed its dining rooms and lobby, crowded the street outside. They had come to applaud an unusual spectacle: a U.S. Ambassador conducting what amounted to a political rally against the Government of Strong Man Juan Domingo...