Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . After the start of World War II ... he was always fighting two wars at the same time, the political struggle for the presidency, which he never lost sight of, and the military conflict. Regardless of his oft-repeated statement, 'I hate war,' he was eager to get into the fighting that would insure a third term...
...eager to eat this bread and salami," said Zdenka, "so I walked over to the waiting hall. Suddenly Mr. Benes came over and asked me why I was so sad and didn't eat. Mr. Benes was my teacher. Last year he failed me because I refused to study Communist government. I didn't have the courage to tell him I couldn't eat because I had come back, so I said I was struck by the sadness of a mother whose son had not returned. He said: 'It is good. If she had brought...
When Tassoula Petracogeorgi, 19, raven-haired and eager-eyed, met Constantine Kephaloyannis, 32, wealthy and handsome, it was a case of love at first sight of Constantine's mustache. It was also a case of near war (TIME, Sept. 4, 1950). Both came from prominent political families in Crete, but Constantine's family was Royalist, Tassoula's Liberal. Tassoula's father forbade the marriage, so Constantine grabbed Tassoula, carried her off to Mount Ida, where they were married in a lonely monastery, then hid in a cave protected by a private army of Constantine...
...same single track. The episodes vary in length, mood and quality. The longest and best, strung together midway in the film, shine with a brilliance that the rest of the movie cannot match. These catch the essence of three classic situations: the willing maid (Simone Simon) and the nervously eager master (Daniel Gelin); the master and the other man's wife (Danielle Darrieux) who wants to be coaxed into infidelity; the faithless wife inciting and lulling the suspicion of her sanctimonious husband (Fernand Gravet...
...Yale faculty was eager to condemn Buckley's views on teaching but none came to the defense of those who were attacked personally for their views on politics and religion. Believing that Yale considers Christianity as just another philosophy, he states that Dr. Lovett's classes are thought of as "guts" by the undergraduates; that Mr. Greene teaches "ethics, not religion," and that "Mr. Schroeder does not seek to persuade his students to believe in Christ, largely because he has not... been completely able to persuade himself." Buckley continues that "Mr. Goodenough has claimed to be "80 percent atheist...