Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detective was wrong. The participants in the biggest cash robbery in U.S. history have kept amazingly silent for the last three years, and even with the added pressure of Federal grand jury proceedings no one seems over-eager to break down. Today the robbers are apparently as well disciplined as they were the night of January...
...very first night, he learned one thing: Boy Scouts seldom look like the idealized picture of Boy Scouts. "I had imagined that they would have eager, alert, likable faces-even noble or cute ones, similar to those I had seen in newspaper photos of Boy Scouts handing placards to the mayor or demonstrating bandages in City Park. Such types appeared to be in very short supply in this troop." Giggling and jiggling among themselves, they scarcely listened to his inaugural address ("Look at Big Shot," whispered one). Nor did they take his attempts at umpiring any more seriously ("That...
...Bill said, the men "worship education." They realize what they missed and are eager to catch up for lost time. Of all the colleges, he added, Harvard draws the largest crowds because it, above all, "represents the education they never...
Your CrimEson, I mean CRIMSON, continues its expose by accusing Yale of "... Eager Striving." Is it unsound practice to "heel" the NEWS for eight weeks? Don't you Harvard boys believe in working for what you want? I don't mean to play the part of Joe McCarthy, but the CRIMSON might be renamed The Crimson Daily Worker. At Harvard, I gather no boy can auspiciously reap the rewards of his success...
Before an audience of 75 eager Heretics, he talked learnedly for about an hour, peering myopically at his notes as he discoursed on the advantages of eating opium. "I like it," said he, "and have done it quite often. One can consume it reasonably, with no ill effects, but ... it should not be given to children under five...