Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inning. Giant offices were besieged with callers eager to testify in Durocher's behalf, some of them Dodger fans who said they had no love for Leo but felt that every man deserved a fairer deal than feckless Happy Chandler had dished out. Among the 100 affidavits collected for the defense of The Lip was one from George Cronk, a railroad fireman who swore that he, not Durocher, had accidentally tripped over Boysen and kicked...
...Russians were clearly eager to end the Berlin blockade. The fact that the bold, persistent Berlin airlift-and Berliners' dogged courage-had brought them to this point was a notable cold war victory for the West. But there was far more than that behind the Moscow statement...
...years ago, poured $1,500,000 into a dismal play called The Ladder (789 performances) until he ended up giving all tickets away. Not comparable are Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances) and Tobacco Road (3,182 performances); both defied the critics with their lengthy runs-but eager customers put up the money...
Back from the wild blue yonder, thousands of veterans jumped into the air transport business after the war. All they needed to set themselves up as irregular nonscheduled airlines was a little capital, some flying know-how, and one or more surplus planes, which the War Assets Administration was eager to sell them cheap. Some of them crashed, and some went broke. But about no nonscheduled lines have been doing well enough with cargo and air-coach services to throw a scare into the big, scheduled airlines...
...they don't first at all," most of the full time help reports. Many of the three-hour gals, on the other hand, describe the Yardlings as "darn eager...