Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eager Amateurs. Clubs were mushrooming as never before. It was a big year for political amateurs. Both Ike and Adlai had inspired thousands of them to crowd, hot-eyed and eager, into the fray. Last week they were ringing doorbells, raising money, making speeches, ostentatiously smoking Eisenhower and Stevenson cigarettes and, in Texas, punching each other in the nose at cocktail parties. It was enough to make an old pol shudder. So was Dick Nixon's financial "striptease," which had set candidates about the doleful business of disclosing the catalogue of their worldly goods...
...Pompeii this week, Archeologist Maiuri unveiled his new Venus for 47 experts from 20 countries, who were there to dedicate an auditorium for the Pompeian Archeological Center. Until they had a chance to study her bright colors and billowing lines, he brushed off photographers eager to take careful pictures. "It's enough for now," he chuckled, "to say that she is the prototype of a Neapolitan beauty-florid, fleshy, luscious. In short, what you Anglo-Saxons would call a girl with sex appeal...
...Korea last week the U.N. suddenly seemed desperately eager to break the deadlock in the truce talks. At the heart of the impasse is the question of repatriating North Korean and Chinese prisoners. The Communists want them all back. The U.N. has taken the position that no prisoner should be forced back to Red territory against his Will. Last week the U.N. senior delegate, Lieut. General William K. Harrison, brought out three new proposals, and asked the Communists to pick any one. Technically, the proposals stood firm on the U.N. position, but actually they came close to scrapping...
...learn more about water, fat and muscle and their importance to surgical patients, Dr. Moore surrounded himself with a team of equally eager young researchers. They worked at Massachusetts General and Peter Bent Brigham hospitals, both connected with Harvard Medical School, where now, at 39, Moore is a full professor. Gradually they chased down other pieces of the patient's jigsaw pattern of progress; so did other teams in other centers. Last week St. Louis' Carl A. Moyer and Manhattan's Henry T. Randall attracted attention with new (and highly technical) reports...
That will be Serafin's main job. He is also eager to take a hand in some of City Opera's new productions. He is scheduled to conduct Ravel's puckish L'Heure Espagnole last week...