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Word: eagerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...north of Scotland." Stalin scotched that idea with the reply, through Ambassador Averell Harriman, that he had suffered ear trouble after his 1943 trip to Teheran, and this his "doctors considered any change of climate would have a bad effect." In the face of this rebuff, the eager Roosevelt sent word that the Black Sea area might be suitable. Stalin said he "would be delighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yalta Story: The Argonauts | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Stalin vaguely agrees he will order his military planners to sit down with their U.S. counterparts to work out a common war against Japan. But he is eager to get to the "political conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yalta Story: The Far East | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Although other kinds of marathons were dreamed up, including even a haircutting marathon for barbers, the bercethon really caught on. Local dignitaries presided as judges. Business firms sponsored entries. Prizes, raised by contributions from eager crowds, ranged up to $1,000 for the contestant who could stay awake, rest only three minutes every three hours, keep one foot on the floor at all times, and outrock his rivals. The current champion is Aime Lavoie, a 33-year-old Cap St. Ignace deckhand, who rocked for 81 hours, 3 minutes and 52 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Marathon Mania | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

Washington's Advertising Club, with eager-beaver young executives chainsmoking and fidgeting in their seats, provided a perfect audience last week for Industrial Medicine-Man Robert Collier Page (TIME. May 24). Warned Page: "Chances of getting ahead in the next decade . . . are going to be many times greater than anyone has ever known . . . Opportunity for every able man and woman, from office boy to vice president, will be spelled out in letters as big as barn doors . . . There is a terrible danger hidden in [this]: unless you are up to the challenge mentally and physically, your next promotion could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Promotion Can Kill | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...Theatre's beginning was in the heads of several Cambridge people who had written verse-plays. They had not been able to see them on a stage because no one with enough capital was very eager to risk it on verse-plays. Early in 1950 these writers drifted into a unit at poet Richard Eberhart's house and elected him president of Poets' Theatre: "Founded to produce original plays of literary and dramatic excellence...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Palmer Street Poets | 3/22/1955 | See Source »

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