Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come all the way from Europe to play one Manhattan concert, Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta had cause to be disheartened. As one of the finest harpists in the world, he could be sure of an eager audience-but equally sure that not a single kind word would appear about him next day: with the town's newspapers shut down (see PRESS), the music critics of the dailies had no way of raising a cheer...
...productions which resulted in a series of Harvard nights at downtown theatres. In 1904 the Boston Transcripts could well say, "There is not a University in America in which a numerically appreciable and notably intelligent and finely strung body of students cultivates the arts of the theatre with the eager and usually discriminating zeal of the Harvard students...
...quality of his playing raised a number of eager questions about young...
Early last spring, hungry for sport and eager to renew old acquaintance, mustachioed Davo Davidson buckled on his two trusty .45s, polished up his long-idle automatic rifle, snipped for Africa and offered Kenya's British authorities his services for the capture of his old buddy. His only condition: that he be allowed to go after Kimathi alone, without benefit of British troops or native police. The authorities accepted the offer and wished Davo luck...
...September day in 1510, two ships put out into the Caribbean from Santo Domingo (now Ciudad Trujillo), capital of the Spanish empire in the New World. They were headed for Urabá, on the South American mainland, with 150 settlers eager for land and gold. On one ship was a stowaway: Vasco Núñez de Balboa, an adventurer who came aboard in a provisions barrel to escape his creditors...