Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thursday. On nominating day the delegates, not unlike a family taking the kids to the circus, eager and just a little apprehensive, brought a full arsenal of convention democracy-placards and pennants, paper hats and noisemakers, confetti and enthusiasm. Dick Russell was first. Then that great tribal dance known as the demonstration for the candidate broke loose, with waving banners, music, shouting. Nominating speeches for Kefauver, Kerr, Fulbright, Harriman, Ewing followed. More shouting, more music, more posters. Then Stevenson...
...less talkative and a lot more informative,* particularly the bird-dogging floor reporters with walkie-talkies, who frequently were able to funnel the news out before the delegates themselves were informed. The convention standout: ABC's tenacious Martin Agronsky, who developed a knack for catching delegates eager to report the results of their most recent caucus...
...invaded the Biblical land of Lebanon ... the Pepsi-Cola culture." The culture poured out of a spanking new limestone and glass bottling plant on the outskirts of Beirut at the rate of 4,000 cases a day, and was lapped up so fast that delivery trucks were mobbed by eager buyers even before they could reach stores. Lebanon's Twefik Suleman Assaf, who had spent $650,000 on the new plant, happily esti mated that he would get his investment back in 18 months...
...Outstretched Hand. Television's relentless cameras (more than 70 were deployed) caught some memorable pictures-the proud profile of Keynoter Douglas MacArthur; the hand of defeated Bob Taft, which, like a numbed limb, remained outstretched long after his handshake with Ike; the small drama of eager hands passing a microphone along during a delegation poll...
...isoniazid was safe, the Cornell researchers turned to the Navajos of Arizona to give it a thorough test. With their high susceptibility to TB and wretched living standards, the Indians provide a tragically large number of miliary and meningeal cases. Often, one patient has both forms. The Navajos were eager to help medical research fight the white man's disease which has killed more of them than white man's bullets ever did. Their Tribal Council put up $10,000 toward the project...