Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile road from Pyongyang to Kaesong. The road was muddy, and cratered from innumerable allied air attacks, and it had been bountifully strewn with "tetrahedrons"-devilish little four-pointed gadgets of cast iron which always keep one sharp point up, no matter how they fall, to puncture tires.* Obviously eager to be the first on the scene, the Communists announced that they proposed to leave Pyongyang the day before the Kaesong meeting in a convoy of five jeeps and five trucks bearing white flags. In addition to their three negotiators, they would bring interpreters, "reception personnel and assistants." They evidently...
...million worth of pork-barrel projects tucked into the rivers & harbors bill by Harry Truman, slapped away the eager hands of members pleading for pet projects, sent the $514,400,000 appropriation to the Senate...
Many people, bored or perplexed by the proceedings, interrupted afternoon strolls to vote, tugging their poodles into polling booths with them. Campers carrying knapsacks and Sunday fishermen with rods hustled in & out of the booths, eager not to waste a delightful day. Lines of black-robed nuns came up to vote beside Communist workmen in their Sunday best...
Actually, Swayze is more eager beaver than elephant. In preparing for the show, he reads the New York Times and the news weeklies avidly, clips whatever seems interesting and restudies his quotes before going on the air. On Sundays, he acts as M.C. of another NBC-TV show called Watch the World, a series of filmed subjects aimed at children...
This week Latuko is being held over for its fourth week in two St. Louis neighborhood theaters, where it has been outdrawing movies from Hollywood. Eager film distributors are negotiating with Queeny for the rights to show the picture on a nationwide schedule. If he closes such a deal, the profits, like those of the St. Louis test run, will go to the Museum of Natural History...