Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show normal people in normal situations. It investigates two working-class families, the steady Hausers, who are old inhabitants of Euclid Street, and the unstable Taylors, newcomers whom war has brought to be next door neighbors. The Hauser parents, both hard at work in a war plant, are eager for their son to finish school. But Frank (Glenn Vernon) is far more eager to earn money, out of restiveness, and because his friends do, and because of Sarah Taylor (Tessa Brind), the gentle, neglected child next door. Both get into bad company (Bonita Granville and some able supporters). Both "have...
...Navy officials in Washington tell us that at many bases the officers and men are too eager for the news to wait for TIME to be read to them. They queue up and read it a page at a time as it comes off the V-Mail printing machines! page" to that size the type would be only a third as big as this-so small that even a Navy man with 20/20 eyesight would have trouble reading it. Consequently we have to cut up proofs of all our columns of type and pictures and maps and paste them together...
...stakes had been driven into the ground. Near them, while the crowd massed in the pouring rain, stood a squad of Maquis, the executioners. Other Maquis lined the factory yard. To keep the eager crowd back, they shouted threats and finally fired a few shots at the ground...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, bald, bespectacled British humorist (Thank You, Jeeves; Quick Service, etc.) captured in France by the Nazis in 1940, was found alive & well in Paris' Hotel Bristol, eager to return to London to dispel the rumors that he had been a Nazi sympathizer.* He called his five broadcasts on the German radio in 1941 "a terrible mistake," explained that he intended them "in the spirit of the British soldier who spoke on the radio to get messages back home." Wodehouse said he was released from prison camp "mainly because I had reached the age of 60," then...
...Times, who probably knows from of old more about Italy and the rest of Europe than any of her competitors. Revisiting many an old friend, she has found Italians hungry ("For the first time in Rome an American feels a little uncomfortable before the hungry eyes of the inhabitants"), eager to regain self-respect and self-government, but resigned to paying "in humiliation, impoverishment and a long status of probation for fatal mistakes of fascist policy...