Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ever since that first phone call from Salesman Hoffman, Sinclair Weeks has been besieged by a steady stream of telephone calls, letters, telegrams and personal visits from auto salesmen eager to prove to him that salesmanship still flourishes. 'Here's one salesman who is rising from the dead . . .' was the way a California dealer began his telegram. At least two dozen salesmen, like Hoffman, used the telephone technique, and some have phoned several times to follow up their first sales efforts. Long-distance calls have come from such widely scattered points as Lubbock, Texas, Detroit, Minneapolis...
...Asia may easily be saved if we provide our worthy allies with [U.S.-run military training] schools. They can be built for barely $5,000,000 each and, with the aid of less than two dozen American instructors . . . give courses lasting from four to 24 weeks to 10,000 eager pupils...
...million goggling Aussies whooped it up on the shore as the royal liner Gothic steamed into Sydney harbor. There were 1,000 private yachts, several Australian warships, scores of sightseeing steamers, and a school of hot-rod speedboats driven by cheering teenagers, who seemed more eager to swamp the police boats than to welcome their Queen. Cannon roared; sirens blew; wave after wave of fighter aircraft swooped low over the royal yacht. Her Majesty, helped by Philip, stepped ashore at Farm Cove, where the first English settlers (290 freemen and 717 convicts) landed...
...along them to safety. But others of the frightened were ground relentlessly into one another, until clothes, then lives, fell away. Pilgrims only a few dozen yards away could not hear the cries of the desperate amid their own chants of "Victory to Mother Ganges" and "Long live religion." Eager to reach the confluence, they pressed forward into the vortex...
...which has taught us that no Government can of itself create real and lasting prosperity . . . The best service that the Government can render to our economy besides helping to maintain stability and insuring a floor of protection for the population is ... to create an environment in which men are eager to make new jobs, to acquire new tools of production, to improve or scrap the old ones, design new products and develop new markets, increase efficiency all around, and thus be able and willing to pay higher wages and provide better working conditions...