Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 90 minutes of committee hearings were held on it last January. Last week's debate, in which only six Senators took part, consumed a mere 2½ hours. Democrat Hennings lamented to a nearly empty chamber that haste does not make good law. But the Senate, uncharacteristically eager to vote, passed the Butler amendment...
...along the Thames-side and along the south coast of England from Cornwall to Kent the night and day before, other eager millions had clustered, to follow the course of Her Majesty's yacht Britannia. As it steamed slowly toward the Pool of London, it was escorted by warships of the Royal Navy and the greatest flotilla of private craft since Britain's yachtsmen set forth in a body to rescue the British forces on the beach at Dunkirk. Some fresh from their beds in pajamas and trenchcoats, others stiff with long waiting, the observers on shore pinched...
...Westhampton Beach, N.Y., Bill Eager of Newark, N.J.. driving his Maserati at a 92.5-m.p.h. average, won the 150-mile Suffolk County Air Force Base race...
...front bench followed by his resignation from the parliamentary committee." Once again, thanks to Mr. A. Bevan, concluded Morrison, "cheerfulness has returned to the Tory benches; depression and annoyance have descended upon ours. Why should a number of labor parties in marginal and difficult constituencies be so eager to support damaging foolishness in the party? . . . Are they political science clubs...
Faking Something. In the '403, revolt begins to taste ashy. As Dick sees it, "below rationality and reason . . . neither Brace nor I had anything. Nothing at all.'' Eager to replace nothing with something, Brace marries an earnest, straightforward Roman Catholic boy and embraces his faith. Dick goes into his father's lumber business but increasingly embraces the bottle and "used women, women who at one time had been firmly in the possession of others ... It is like buying a used car ... If you scratch it you need not feel guilty or angry . . ." When Brace finds that...