Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them worth $2,000 to $3,000 at the nearest cafe. When the Commissioner of Customs recently tried to cut expenses by firing 180 excess employees, he was bombarded into retreat by the protests of Congressmen. For importers, heavy tips to customs agents are a necessity. In their eager study of U.S. institutions, Filipino politicos had learned from Hague and Pendergast, as well as from Madison and Jefferson...
...many, the greased-steel concrete-embedded goalposts are the most outstanding features of the Bowl. They are also the most fought over. Every year, there have been attempts of mutilate the posts in some way. After the 1949 Harvard-Yale game an eager Harvard student climbed the goalpost and proceeded to paint the uprights red. Only through the efforts of the New Haven police department was the student prevented from completing his act; he escaped and left part of the goal-post a brilliant crimson...
Levertt's eager Bunnies rampaged to a 12 to 6 upset over Winthrop to topple the Puritans off the league lead on the muddy Jayvee field yesterday, and win the House football championship. In the other game of the day. Lowell crushed Kirkland, 25 to 6, ending the House football season...
Friends and admirers of the flamboyant MacArthur have been prompt--even eager--to point out minor factual inaccuracies in the present work, and thus to infer that the whole book is a shoddy job. Tbis will just not do; there is too much well-documented and relevant material that could only be refuted by a detailed counter-analysis of the general's motives and actions...
Producer Gregory, already booking Don Juan in Hell for a fourth tour next fall and winter, has a waiting list of stars eager to step in if any of the quartet should have to drop out. Last week another of his pleasant prospects was a feeling among Manhattan playgoers that they were a huge neglected audience for Don Juan. He booked the show for a four-week return engagement on Broadway, starting Nov. 29. Other commitments permitting, it could probably run merrily for at least a season...