Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternate delegate to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights: Donald W. Eastvold, 33, lean, eager-looking attorney general of Washington state. Televiewers remember Eastvold's bold and brilliant leadership ("Beware a young man with a book") in the successful fight against the seating of the Taftist Georgia delegation at last summer's Republican convention...
...object to flying in such weather? "I am eager to go. There's nothing more fascinating than the other side of the clouds; the far side is intensely beautiful." His philosophy? "I'll give you quite a chunk of my philosophy in just seven words: 'The wolf is always at the door.' There's no use killing any of them, because there is always another. I'm not complaining of him-he keeps us fit and even alive, if we are alert." His best period of writing: during the 1940 blitz on London, when...
...second advantage would follow from this curb on unsubstantiated attack. If witnesses had an assured chance to answer charges publicly, many would be far less eager to seek refuge in the Fifth Amendment. This, in turn, would save committees from having to call fifty witnesses to get one page of useful information, and would help make up for the time lost in cross-examination...
Jeffries was far from eager; he had quit training, was long past his peak and weighed 285 Ibs. But he was hounded endlessly, both by Promoter Tex Rickard and the public. He went to Europe to relax and was startled one day when Britain's King Edward VII stepped out of a shop in Carlsbad and accosted him. The King, who had been picking out silver foxes for a lady friend, wanted to know when he would beat Johnson. Jeffries came home, and on Oct. 29, 1909 signed to fight Li'l Arthur 45 rounds...
Most Frenchmen have a natural distrust of living anywhere except in France, but the poster swayed the schoolteacher and his wife. It showed a colonial couple, elegant in tropic white, taking their ease in a banana grove, while eager natives bustled at tasks around them. "Young people," assured the poster legend, "a fortune awaits you in the Colonies!" Ma and her husband applied for teaching posts in Indo-China and, one day in 1899, sailed to take them...