Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were signs that Communists as well as Socialists were stirring up the dissatisfaction. But it was also plain that young Germans are not eager to get into uniform; most are at best indifferent, willing to serve but not anxious to volunteer. Said one German before a Cologne youth forum: "My whole family was at the front in the last war: my father and my brother-in-law. Our family was bombed out. Now I ask you why I should become a soldier. I have no one to defend...
...eyes of all France watched as Gaston, his weathered features paler after a year in jail, faced his tribunal of seven jurors and three judges. The courtroom was packed with a crowd of 400 eager spectators for the most publicized French trial since those of Petain and Laval in 1945. Banks of reporters from Paris and London came down to tell the story for their readers. A U.S. movie producer dropped by to measure the film possibilities of Gaston's case. Famed French Author Jean Giono was on hand to get material for a book. By comparison with Gaston...
...arrival in Washington of the Premier of France stirred up more than ordinary interest on the part of the public and the public's servants. As he made his official rounds last week, Pierre Mendès-France was greeted everywhere by swarms of curious, often applauding Washingtonians, eager for a glimpse or a snapshot of the most-discussed, most controversial Frenchman since General Charles de Gaulle. Mendès-France had been characterized variously as a fickle Gallic opportunist and as a pin-striped Savonarola who preached hard truths. Preparing to return to France this week, the brisk...
...place where you can always get a loan-when you don't need one. While this may have been true in the past, bankers are now rapidly changing their ways. The main reason is that some of their major functions are being usurped by some hard-selling upstarts eager to lend money. They are the nation's 6,000 savings and loan associations, which represent the fastest-growing financial business in the U.S. As their name implies, savings and loan associations have two main functions: 1) to help people save their money, 2) to supply mortgage loans...
Ores, Balrogs & Ringwraiths. Frodo is about as eager to do this as P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster would be to play Siegfried. The bulk of the novel describes his trials. Some of them would scarcely faze a cub scout, and there is so much hiking in fog and snow, up hill and through bog, that Frodo seems at times like a mythical postman. His enemies, however, send shivers rippling along the spine: toeless, green-scaled Ores, fire-breathing Balrogs, Barrow-wights who put their prey in a catatonic trance, and the Ringwraiths, nine black-shrouded riders on nine...