Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower reminisced: "Coast to coast ... I saw the faces of tens of thousands of eager, earnest, friendly Americans. The thought kept recurring . . . what tremendous deeds can be done for America through the unity, through the united will, of all these people...
...began to refer to Eisenhower as the "honorary Republican candidate" and the "Eager General." He said that Eisenhower was conducting a campaign of "ugly, twisted, demagogic distortion." And he implied that Eisenhower's election would lead not only to isolationism but to World...
Attitudes: Like most Canadians, he admires and likes both the U.S. and Britain, and is eager to cooperate with both, but insistent on being treated as an equal. "The special responsibility which the U.S. has accepted ... in the struggle against Russian Communist imperialism," he said last year of Korea, "does not mean an automatic response 'ready, aye, ready' to everything Washington proposes." Two months ago use of Canadian soldiers to help quell rioting prisoners at Koje brought an indignant Pearson outburst...
...letter was addressed to Blitz Editor Karanjia and carried Bowles's signature. Said the letter: "[I] would be most eager to meet you and your Communist friends [at a] quiet evening party . . . Only please do not make much noise about this sort of thing." Police charged that Karanjia forged the letter on U.S. Embassy stationery and pasted on a Bowles signature clipped from another letter. The purpose of the forgery apparently was to take the steam out of Ambassador Bowles's effective speeches against Communism. Newsmen guessed that Karanjia saw to it that the letter fell into Current...
Ordinarily, no climbers would be eager to tackle Everest in the shortening, ever colder days of autumn. But the Swiss have no choice: Nepal's government will honor their entry permit only until year's end. Moreover Nepal, under pressure from the spy-conscious Chinese Reds, has announced that it will give passage to only one more group of climbers, a British party now planning an assault on Everest late next spring, the traditional season for climbing...