Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Always agile at getting two benefits from one move, the Russians are already exploiting their break with Israel in that vast strategic vacuum, the Middle East. They found eager hearers among the Arabs, who dislike Britain and France for past colonial behavior and mistrust the U.S. for its constant support of Israel. The day after Vishinsky's note, every newspaper in Syria printed editorials hailing Russia's action and urging other governments to do likewise...
...first sharecroppers to lease five acres at Bois Dehors, the valley's pilot irrigation project. Dorneirl netted $211 on his first bumper rice crop; before, he lived all year on a near-starvation diet and ended up with $10 cash. Now farmers who know him are eager for the completion of the Artibonite project, so that they can follow his example. Reclaiming, leveling and watering the entire 80,000 acres will require at least nine years, Haitian agronomists estimate. But by that time, they hope to have the valley sown with such diverse crops as cereals, vegetables, peanuts, kenaf...
Contacted yesterday, Robertson commented that he was disturbed by the sensationalist fashion in which the Boston Post treated the story yesterday. He said John Fox '29, publisher of the Post, was very eager to print the story as soon as he got the letter...
...Nationalist armies, the arrival of the Red Army, the process of Sovietization since the autumn of 1949, but not the phenomena of which Mr. Willcox writes ... It is true the people are bursting with hope-hope that their Communist masters will be quickly driven out forever. The people are eager, desperately eager for freedom from the despots who harshly rule them...
Newby announced that many companies are eager to sign up graduates, even for two month training periods, before they leave for the armed services...