Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This word war had to be waged carefully and cannily, lest the U.S. seem too eager and thus persuade the Japs that they could get better terms by holding out longer. The Japs did their best to convince the U.S. that only soft words would work. Before the Potsdam declaration came out (see INTERNATIONAL) a Tokyo broadcaster blandly counseled the U.S. to watch its words, quoted an old fable: the gentle sun could make a man take off his overcoat more quickly than the strong wind. At Potsdam the U.S. and her Pacific ally, Britain, settled for a strong...
...leave saga with music, dancing, and Technicolor's full palette, is easily the pleasantest couple of hours that can be bought currently in a movie theater. Its standard-bearers : Gene Kelly, a sailor fairly enough described as the Sea Wolf; his sidekick Frank Sinatra, a shy type but eager to learn; Kathryn Grayson, a movie extra who wants to become a famous singer; and José Iturbi, who is surprised but very nice about it when Miss Grayson, being kidded by the sailors, turns up for an audition...
...eager Hearst editors it looked like a natural: one Private Joseph McGee of Worcester, Mass., billed as "in the regular Army since 1938 with an honorable record of service," had been sentenced to two years for slapping Nazi prisoners (TIME, June...
Jewel. In Lexington, Ky., answering an ad which offered to sell a "Beautiful Man's Genuine Italian Heavy Cameo Ring," one eager woman wrote: "I don't care anything about the ring, but I'd like to bid on the beautiful...
Hollywood might have given fresh clarity and vigor to the familiar story of the eager, humane A.M.G. Major Joppolo, who introduced democracy to Fascist-ridden Adano, and to arrogant, bellicose General Marvin, who sent him packing for defying the General's inhumane orders. But Marvin, who appears only once, looking not unlike General George Patton, is handled with such kid-gloved tenderness that he never becomes a real, hateful antagonist. In consequence, Joppolo's zeal for spreading democracy becomes a worthy but not over-exciting crusade that lacks the dramatic conflict which would have made it exciting...