Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope the tennis team will be half as good this year as the squash team was." Jack Barnaby, who coaches both squads, says he has no aspirations for another national championship this spring. He does expect, however, to have an "eager, more experienced team" by the time the Yale match comes around...
Minor characters were as sharply etched: a woebegone, moonfaced Puerto Rican accepting his impending arrest for perjury with a resigned shrug; an ex-Navy lieutenant commander, nervously eager to please, repeatedly and irrelevantly reminding the committee that he had been wounded in the South Pacific; a prim Fire Department receptionist who kept painstakingly correcting his own grammar...
...fraud, Elmer Gantry, with a touch of Berzelius Windrip, the magnificent Lorenzo plans a Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with a pert tongue, a figure that no man can keep his hands off, and "the voice of a bird flying at dun twilight over the western plains...
...time, the pitchers come into throw them up to the rapidly sharpening batting eyes of wise-cracking veterans although some are none too sure of their obs) and eager new candidates. Stuffy lovers over it all. "Keep the ball away from the pitcher," he calls to a batter. "Hit it to the left or right." The nervous man at the plate drills a fast one straight at the mound and the pitcher dives for the ground. The coach wipes his forehead and mutters, "Dirty practice balls are very hard to see." With Ira Godin, last year's mound star, graduated...
Ferry has built up a good tutorial staff, especially in the sciences. Many of these men are available to students at all times and attempt to make dinner table instruction a fact. Others, however, are almost never seen in the newly-painted dining hall, feeling, perhaps, that the eager student will seek them...