Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diplomat. The scramble for Hull's job was short, eager and one-sided. The biggest and fastest boom billowed up for OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes. The dopesters had other names, too, especially the three "Ws"-Wallace, Winant and Welles. But most of the dopesters were wrong...
...waiting to China's Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi, first high-born Chinese woman to marry a foreigner (Thaddeus White, U.S. Vice Consul at Shanghai); after being run down by a truck; in Berkeley, Calif. Daughter of a Manchu ambassador to France, Princess Der Ling, in America, lectured to eager audiences, wrote reminiscences of Chinese royalty (Son of Heaven, Jades and Dragons), taught Chinese at the University of California...
From the ruins of Aachen last week emerged a man who was willing, if not eager, to run the first non-Nazi city in the Reich. Herr X (the U.S. Army censorship withheld his name) agreed to be Aachen's first post-Hitler, democratic mayor. Of Aachen's 166,000 residents, only 3,000 remained, only 24 were deemed trustworthy, only five were willing to take...
...Puzzles. And there was the further complication of Washington's peripatetic global emissaries whose powers, purposes and accreditation were often more baffling than any Chinese puzzle. There was Vice President Henry Wallace. He cocked a nutritional eye at China's permanently underfed people, bent an eager ear to gossip of Chungking's and Chiang's political instability, buzzed back to Washington to pour his frightening reports into the Presidential ear. Then there were President Roosevelt's personal representatives, Donald Nelson, all new to China and China to him, and Major General Patrick Hurley. Worldly, well...
...occupying troops that he is an antiFascist, shelters with an unwilling bourgeois housewife (Helen Beverly). He also toys viciously, in his spare time, with her nubile daughter (Starlet Nancy Gates). His most useful dupe is an emotional miller (Paul Guilfoyle) who, easily led to believe that the Allies are eager to hoodwink and exploit his fellow townsmen, stirs up labor trouble and blows up a military jail. His most dangerous enemy is a repentant Nazi prisoner (Eric Feldary), whose murder he brings about and who, with his dying breath, denounces him to the occupation officers...