Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...egalitarian Manchester Guardian did not mind money spent on public pageantry but thought there might be less royal money wasted on levees based on "social differentiation and caste exclusiveness. These we can dispense with unless we choose to continue presentations at Court for the sake of eager debutantes from the great American democracy . . . The main thing is to make the monarchy a more popular institution by relying on affection rather than on formality or display...
...says, "but I wanted to play the old music -the two-beat, the natural beat (once you get into the four-beat, you begin to jump up & down)-just once more before I died." He was afraid the "kids wouldn't like it," incredulously found there was an eager new generation that "doesn't even remember Benny Goodman...
Colorado's Republican J. Edgar Chenoweth, a member of the subcommittee, was eager for facts & figures on TV's plunging necklines. "In boxing, if a man hits below the belt there is a foul," said Chenoweth, sententiously. "Now where is the line here?" After a thoughtful pause, Witness Gathings allowed it was "a hard matter to say just where the line should be," but hopefully urged that "reasonableness be the guide...
Newspaper headlines screamed about scandals, prohibition, and the Ku Klux Klan as hordes of eager freshmen invaded Cambridge during the windy September days of 1923. Tradition-ridden Harvard lived a life of its own, however--a life that could be just as exciting as that in the world outside the Square. Still, current events were able to filter into and disturb the University scene; sometimes they momentarily banished sex and football as bull session topics...
...size, Liberty never made much money: only $20,000 before taxes in 1949, $50,000 in 1950. The big reason: McLendon was so eager to build his empire that he ignored sound programming, often paid more to service his stations than they paid him in affiliation fees. Last summer, in need of money, McLendon sold 50% of Liberty to Texas Oilman Hugh Roy Cullen...