Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success. The dance has its own logic: in a coalition of central parties in which none has a majority, the party undertaking the coalition must make concessions to buy the support of some other party. Unless he wants to pay an exorbitant price, a buyer must not seem too eager...
...teaching ability than on "the results," if post-season games and tournaments are cut out, and if sports are relegated in every way possible to the status of an adjunct of education, then the atmosphere will be much clearer and healthier. There will still be cases, of course, where eager alumni provide funds secretly to put outstanding athletes into their alma maters, but short of a complete change in our standards of value, there is very little that can be done about that...
...eager, perhaps overeager, to break the logjam by making concessions. But Ridgway's men were stoutly determined not to allow the Reds unlimited rights to build and repair airfields in North Korea. The Reds insisted on doing what they pleased in their own territory. Said Red China's Hsieh Fang: "We are deeply aware of the fact that you are very much afraid of our military air power...
...brought a swarm of hungry, would-be film makers to Hollywood, often with no more equipment than a desk, a chair and an idea. One of the eager idea-men is Marc Frederic, 40, an ex-department-store buyer who was short on cash but long on inspiration. Luckier than most, he joined forces two years ago with Gifford Phillips, an heir to the Jones & Laughlin steel fortune, who had both money and the conviction that film was going to be the biggest thing in television...
...thought we were set. Then this passer disclosed he needed summer school to become eligible." The eager boosters, dazzled by the passer's ability and plainly charmed by his ingenuous requests for money, promptly sent him to Texas' Tyler Junior College. The boosters paid his tuition and fees and, just to make sure that he was comfortable, gave him $125-a-month spending money. "Then," said Coach Graham, announcing the payoff, the ingrate "enrolled at Texas U., not K-State...