Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Boston courtroom of Harvard-trained Municipal Judge Elijah Adlow, 48, marched the watchdogs of the New England Watch & Ward Society, eager to score their fourth book-banning in a year.* They marched out again, having suffered one of the worst defeats in 66 years of protecting Boston from naughty thoughts...
Jennifer Jones, for another example, is a shy, eager, gifted girl who last year underwent the alarming experience of being rocketed to stardom almost overnight by her performance in The Song of Bernadette. Jennifer was confused and frightened by the fuss made over her. From now on, she realized, people would stare at her, expect something of her. She lacked confidence; she did not dress well; she did not know how to give a party. She did not know how to be photographed, how to make herself up, what dresses to buy, how to talk casually with people...
...Bennington College's President Lewis Webster Jones: "In 1945-46 higher education will face the greatest crisis and greatest opportunity in the nation's history. . . . All indications are that the returning veterans will be most eager to ... work hard on a serious adult curriculum...
...London's Central Hall, Westminster, the organ played solemn music as the Labor delegates mustered for the Party's annual conference. Behind the platform hung an impressive banner proclaiming "A People's Peace." Crowds of young delegates, many of them in uniform, were eager to define policy and state where Labor stood. A general election, Britain's first in nine years, was in the offing. Labor thought it had a real chance...
There aren't words big enough to tell about Al Samman's and Bill Shuey's big party on the recently ended weekend. Joined by Puckett, a one-time shoe salesman, and "Light foot" O'Donnell, as well as "Parade Rest" Rinetti, the boys seem eager for another shot at a "six men wanted for a late party" deal...