Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early years of Japan's re-introduction to democracy, Hirata and Garey found a few old customs difficult to deal with. Although many Japanese businessmen were eager to resume their prewar world trade, most Japanese firms budgeted only a nominal amount for advertising and often treated this simply as a good-will fund. An advertising salesman would be politely received by a minor official, and, with typical courtesy, would be given a small ad or a modest fee, known as ashi dai (taxi fare or, more literally, feet...
Playing the Game. The first big story to come from the Reds was Burchett's account of his interview with General Dean (TIME, Dec. 31). The next came when the Associated Press found that its Pulitzer Prizewinning Photographer Frank Noel, 52, was in a North Korean prison camp. Eager for an exclusive, A.P.'s Bob Schutz lugged a camera to Panmunjom and asked the Communist correspondents to deliver it to Noel. A few days later, A.P. had a set of P.W. pictures taken by Noel. Though they had been censored by the Communists, they were the first pictures...
Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Yaleman Morris was one of the eager young men of Fiorello La Guardia's Fusion administration in New York. He served as president of the city council under the Little Flower (1938-46), ran unsuccessfully for mayor against William O'Dwyer. Morris has a gift for the pompous phrase and the ill-turned paragraph; as a reporter once said to him: "You were born with a silver foot in your mouth...
This week in the House of Commons, His Majesty's Government was doing its duty and testing its popularity. Winston Churchill's most trusted lieutenant, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, faced the fire of M.P.s eager to know where Britain now stands in the world, how deeply it is committed, how ready to face the risks. Even in a week when the government confronted its people with the worst economic news in years (see above), such questions rained down upon the Tories. The economic news-of cuts and shortages and redoubled austerity-was of personal concern to every Briton...
That did not quite sound like a man eager to renew friendship with Britain. Yet London and Washington regarded his appointment, and Farouk's decisiveness in making it, as a turn for the better. Trying to negotiate with a strong man could be difficult, but trying to negotiate with a mob is impossible...