Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copenhagen, the Danish State Radio was sponsoring Denmark's first TV programs (three hours a week). There were warnings that Denmark's government budget could not stand the cost-$70,000 a year-but eager viewers pointed out that Danish production of TV accessories might earn as much as $5,000,000 from overseas export. Added income: a $7-a-year license fee from each set owner...
...began to wonder "whether the paradise of our prewar existence, that we had dreamed of overseas, was so wonderful after all." While still on duty, however, he typed his way through the Coral Sea, the Solomons, Midway, North Africa, and Sicily, and gave Guadalcanal Diary and Invasion Diary to eager watchers on the home front. He covered most of the war's big battles from the front lines for newspapers all over the country. After the last island surrendered and Tregaskis ran out of his well-known war stories, he returned to find life dull and petty. So he began...
...camera moves fast, nervously picking out detail: a monstrous fullback sauntering innocently away from an opponent he has just maimed; the ground rushing up toward a runner who has been blocked once too often; a scattering of hired athletes at a fraternity dance, each as distinct from the eager fraters as if he were standing under a glass bell...
...dance, Joint Instruction's answer to the two platoon system, heads today's social calendar for Radcliffe freshmen and eager college males...
...same time, Colonel Charles P. Summerall, professor of Military Science and Tactics, said that he was eager to admit 20 more freshmen to the Field Artillery unit, even after the previously announced deadline for enrollment at 5 p.m. yesterday. Summerall's unit already numbers 270, over 100 more than were enrolled last fall...