Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propose it. This shored up Schoeppel's wavering support and clothed the plan with the mantle of a wheat-state Senator. For the prestige of sponsoring the winning compromise, and for the promise of presidential backing in this fall's election, Republican Schoeppel was willing (if not eager) to oblige...
...eager hands thrust fountain pens toward the big, swarthy man at the head of the velvet-covered table. Grinning, he dug into a pocket for his own pen, then scribbled his initials on the sheet of paper before him. Suddenly it was over and the room exploded into mad applause; the watching throng-soldiers, government officials, reporters-crowded in to pound his back and plant kisses on his cheek...
...that he once took off his pants in the street and gave them to a beggar. It is the only story which suggests that the count had so much as a leg to stand on. No man was ever more henpecked, more terrified of his wife-and yet more eager in his determination to believe himself "master in my own house." Two astonishing examples are enough to illustrate Giacomo Leopardi's total dependence on his parents: 1) he was 20 before he went out of the house unchaperoned; 2) he was 27 before his father...
Last week there were signs that Shivers, for the first time in his long political career, was in trouble. He found himself in the unusual position (for him) of defending his public and private record against the assaults of his opponent, an eager, 51-year-old lawyer named Ralph Yarborough, * who lost to Shivers in 1952 by more than 300,000 votes. Yarborough has made political hay with a deposition, recently made public, showing that Shivers made a profit of $425,000 on a Rio Grande Valley land deal within seven months in 1946 when he was a state senator...
...Saigon's safer atmosphere, Viet Nam's new nationalist Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem tried to inspire defiance. He formed a Cabinet of eager young Vietnamese who had never truckled to the French. "A cease-fire," warned Diem, "should not lead to partition, which no Vietnamese wants and which can only lead to a new and more murderous war." Unhappily, for Diem and for his people, he seemed to be talking against the wind...