Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pugnacious General James Van Fleet "was eager for the Communists to jump off with their offensive - if they were ever going to. Said he grimly: "A Communist offensive would give us the chance to slaughter them. That way we could get them in wholesale lots, and not have to kick them piecemeal out of the hills the way we are doing...
Rampaging wells and eager people are signs of the times in booming Alberta. All Canada has expanded amazingly since World War II; discoveries of iron ore, nickel, copper, uranium and titanium are cracking open a dozen new frontiers. But the biggest boom of all is in Alberta's oil, the most significant new find on the continent since Texas' Spindletop roared in, 50 years...
Britons were flocking last week, as eager as race fans, to the R.A.F. experimental station at Farnborough, 33 miles southwest of London. The twelfth annual show of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, billed as "the most spectacular aviation display ever held in Britain," turned out to be just that. Britain's aircraft constructors, slipping aside the wraps of military security, really had something to display...
Time, helped by the eager brushes of varnishers and retouchers, has altered many a painting so that even its old master wouldn't know it. In 1946, restorers at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum disconcerted art lovers by cleaning up Rembrandt's famous Night Watch,* admired for generations because of its air of midnight mystery. Under decades of dust, soot and varnish was a picture painted in the clear morning light, filled with bright colors and contrasts. Last week The Hague's Mauritshuis displayed another cleaned-up Rembrandt masterpiece: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, the Dutch...
Crime with Father (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV), a new mystery series, teams Rusty Lane, a police lieutenant, with Peggy Lobbin, his bouncily helpful daughter. The opening episode had a mild surprise in a murderer who was eager to confess, but soon lost its way in a maze of overacting and rattling gunshots that sounded like small boys firing cap pistols...