Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fair. In spite of this spectacular human tragedy, the show was an aeronautical and military success. Distinguished foreigners from 94 countries, including top aviation men of the Western world, swarmed out of London with hordes of eager Britons. Farnborough turned into a gigantic county fair as families picnicked on the grass or watched from the tops of cars...
Father Rhodes does not attribute this growth to aggressive proselytizing.Though daily Mass and doctrinal instruction are compulsory at Rosary, the emphasis is on running a better school than the segregated public schools available to Negroes. "[The pupils] are very eager to come here," says Father Rhodes. "The parents are as eager for them to come...
...than 100 years ago, a czarist agent, Bishop Euspensy, hatched the scheme of wresting the Jerusalem patriarchate away from his church's liturgical twin, the Greek Orthodox Church. The best he could do was to wean a few Christian Arabs away from the Greek church. But the czars, eager to extend their power through the Middle East, kept the plot boiling. In 1860, the Russian Palestine Society was founded. Its main business: buying up property in Jerusalem and Nazareth and running a theological seminary where the students boned up on power politics when they were not chanting their Kyrie...
...brought in executives from other firms and, although a graduate of Yale himself ('36), he put a stop to Grace's habit of hiring what he calls "rich men's sons from swanky colleges." Says Grace: "What we want are hungry, brainy young men who are eager to knock themselves...
...Kathleen Winsor: "They stood together, his legs widespread"; "He swept the hair off her neck and put his mouth there"; "He smelt like weeds rotted in water." Even longer stretches of Winsor prose have that touch of pure Amber. "She had been surprised at the discovery of an eager sensual appetite within herself. It had been in hiding, apparently, for most of her life . . . and then one day it had appeared." "It was one of the few times he had met a woman who did not instantly flare her nostrils, sniff, and come bounding...