Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feet on the Screen. All this was pure windfall for the Democratic candidate, former State Senator Robert Baumle Meyner (pronounced miner), 45, an eager small-town (Phillipsburg, pop. 19,000) lawyer whose key supporter is Jersey City's current Democratic boss, Mayor John V. Kenny. The Democratic record stems from ex-Boss Frank Hague and is deeply scarred by bossism and unbridled corruption-but this time the Democrats have been successful in wrapping themselves in the mantle of reform. Hague's nephew, former Mayor Frank Hague Eggers of Jersey City, is supporting Troast. One of Meyner...
Only Ed Dickenson, 7,000 miles away in Korea, knew why he had wanted to try Communism-and he wasn't giving the real reasons. When he crossed the line at Panmunjom, he was smiling sheepishly and seemed eager to talk, but he was whisked away by helicopter to the 121st Evacuation Hospital at Seoul and later by plane to the Tokyo Army hospital. At press conferences, he was sullen and evasive, and told a story that was skeptically received. Why had he originally refused repatriation? "I wanted revenge against the Communists for what they did to my buddies...
...word Catholic comes from two Greek words meaning 'according to the whole' or 'universal' . . . The Roman Church has been eager to have the American public believe that it is the 'one universal and true' Christian church. Thereby other churches become mere sects, their Christian teaching at least partial and probably false, and all of them in rebellion against the true church founded by Christ...
Another obstacle was the notion that private enterprise is eager to develop nuclear power plants. AEC spent precious years exploring this possibility. Said Murray, an ardent free-enterprise man: "The answer that we derived after several years of probing this problem, with the help of competent, interested industrialists, was negative." Many companies wanted to get into the game, but they all demanded in one way or another that the Government pay the bill...
More to the point for the Crimson, however, was Davidson's 34 to 0 walloping at the hands of Furman. Coach Jordan plays one game at a time, and he'll find Saturday's opponents mighty eager for a win after dropping their first five...