Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his long siege of illness, Anthony Eden at 56 is feeling robust again and eager to take over as the Queen's first minister. His bout with the Russians at Berlin whetted his zest, and he came home with a tougher view about dealing with the Kremlin than that suggested by Sir Winston's still-evident yearning for a sweeping parley at the summit...
Apparently there is no one in Washington so eager to lose his job as Federal Housing Administrator Albert M. Cole. Last week, the House Appropriations Committee helped to give Mr. Cole his wish by voting, 26 to 9, to put an end to federal activity in housing. The Committee, acting with the approval of the Republican leadership, threw out the Administration's request for a modified building program of 35,000 low cost units a year for the next four years...
...thrill of companionship with eager men and women whose joy it is to create beauty by breathing life and significance into music which, without the exercise and skill of their attention, would remain cold symbols on the printed page; to have a part with them in the accomplishment of high artistic ends arrived at only after enthusiastic cooperation and painstaking labor; to see them grow in sensitiveness to the refinements of performance and in the appreciation of what is true and enduring in art--I cannot believe many professions have greater rewards...
...Since the failure of the Student Council's own German exchange program can be attributed to an $11,000 cut of government funds, I'm sure they will be eager to work with our petition on this new cut," he said...
...living writing, although he was soon to classify himself, as a "semi-retired literary gentleman." President Eliot had resigned on October 26, 1908 and the Corporation was shopping around for a successor to Eliot. Roosevelt's name received immediate consideration. Many of the Faculty, especially William James were eager to pick Roosevelt, but most of the alumni, basically conservative, opposed him. Henry Lee Higgenson expressed their common opinion when he said. "We need a man of Judgement, and is judgement over to be found coupled with tusch enormous energy?" Roosevelt was eliminated, and Lowell selected. During the rest...