Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incipient recession, and predicted that it would end before the year was out. The Government was cutting taxes, easing credit, and holding a public-works program in ready status. But Government's main economic job, said the 1954 report, is "to create an environment in which men are eager to make new jobs, to acquire new tools of production." Faith & Hope. Last week Ike reported that the contraction had proved mild indeed. Slashed Government spending and private inventory liquidation had dropped a total of $24 billion, but the economy as a whole (gross national product) dipped only $14 billion...
...President was not at his best, e.g., on the confusion in the Administration's security risk program (see below), but he left in a slip of the tongue which had the President saying Indonesia when he meant Indo-China. More reporters than usual wore television-blue shirts and eager looks, but the President maintained his customary earnest demeanor as he answered questions ranging from the Tachen crisis in Asia to how he likes his job (its blessings are "not wholly unmixed...
Watkins proceeded to put in a plug for something near to his heart: the billion-dollar power and reclamation project proposed for the Upper Colorado River Basin. There was, said Watkins, nothing socialistic about the idea; private utilities in the West were ready and eager to buy the power. Moreover, backing by the President would help refute some of the talk about the Administration's "giveaway" policy on natural resources. "That's a good idea," said Ike, turning to an assistant and giving the necessary order...
According to legend, when Aphrodite emerged from the foaming sea, the earth was so eager to compete with the spectacle that it promptly produced the first rose. The flower has been much in evidence ever since: Mark Antony's death request was that Cleopatra cover his tomb with roses, and William Penn brought 18 roses to America from London.* The American Beauty is the flower of the District of Columbia, Georgia has the white Cherokee rose, Iowa the wild rose, and New York an unspecified variety of rose. But the indigenous goldenrod, despite its exaggerated reputation for producing...
...Premier has grown increasingly remote. Most of the bright young brain-trusters who clustered about him in the early days and spouted eager advice while a barber shaved him or a waiter served lunch have been banished from the inner chambers. For intimate guidance, Mendès now relies on only three disciples-Jean Soutou, 43, and Claude Cheysson. 35, who are intelligent Quai d'Orsay types, and Simon Nora, 33, who is something of a financial wizard. Even emissaries specially summoned from as far away as Indo-China find themselves closeted with the young aides for lengthy interrogations...