Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know that General Eisenhower can get a larger popular vote. If Senator Taft were as patriotic as he should be, he would withdraw in favor of Eisenhower, to make certain a Republican victory in November. Senator Taft should not be allowed to forget that hundreds of thousands of independents eager to vote for Eisenhower do not vote in Republican primaries...
...with Communism, many of his own soldiers began to desert him. In one week, more than 10 of them surrendered. Since then, Manap Jepun, with only a small cadre of Chinese terrorists, has been pressed back into the northern mountains, hounded by British teams accompanied by his former followers, eager for the $25,000 price on his head...
Feeble attempts all over the nation to imitate the original College lingerie raid on Radcliffe have met with little success, interested observers reported yesterday. The first successful bra-and-panty theft took place at the 'Cliffe more than a year ago, when eager Yardlings poured out of a dimly lit Union to storm Briggs and Cabot Halls for personal souvenirs...
...jogged out for the preflight check. In their orange baseball caps, the crews themselves glistened dully, too. Most of them were reserves, and like their planes they were ten years older than in the glamour days of World War II. There was little of the "tiger" (Korea equivalent for "eager beaver") about them. They were cool, experienced, careful, sometimes sardonic. They liked to call themselves the "Christmas help," and they liked to point out that the average B-29 in the outfit was carrying the fathers of ten children...
Last week, now 54 and getting grey, Reuben Nakian was in a Manhattan gallery with an exhibit he was certain was worth saving. Working at Newark's School of Fine and Industrial Art, the center of a group of noisy, eager students, he has turned out 15 large and small statues in two years. All are of Europa and the bull done in natural clay washed over with red, black and pastel glazes. The work looks rough and half-finished, is built of abstract masses of streaming, fluted clay with little or no regard for anatomy. The angry figures...