Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said he: "I didn't win too much on horses that year. But I had a sure thing going for me. I had President Truman ... I win $10,000 on that Dewey don't carry New York City by 640,000, even money." Asked by the eager committee how he bet this year, Willie looked puzzled. "There's no outstanding candidate this year, is there? . . . Just the race track this year...
...report was more shocking to Parisian intellectuals than the original incident had been to the worshipers. To many, it sounded like a fair description of any eager young existentialist. So shrill, in fact, was the outcry that tendinous, hyperemotive Michel Mourre was released on bail, has written (for a couple of French newspapers) the memoirs of his autodidactic life as a Dominican student, as an existentialist, and as a bohemian...
...never so much as sung Silent Night together before," explained mother Mary. But Columbia Records' Mitchell Miller was chewing his whiskers over the success of the Crosbys' hit for Decca; Mary and Larry, her son by her first marriage (to Texas Attorney Ben Hagman), were eager...
...Angeles jazz fans, eager for more of the blast and blare of Memphis Blues and Black and Blue, peered through the haze of a nightclub called Tiffany's one night last week at a sight seldom seen in such society. Fat old Clarinetist Darnell Howard had laid down his licorice stick, was making his way to the stand with a big white cake decked with three blue candles. He set the cake down, beckoned to a little cornetist with a droopy leprechaun face, bade him stand up and take a big bow. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, whom some Dixieland experts...
...people judge a doctor by whether or not he is a good listener? "In his history-taking," says New York Medicine, "a physician finds the patient eager to relate his symptoms with exhausting attention to detail and trivia ... It is understandable why doctors become impatient with their patients . . . But becoming impatient and showing impatience are vastly different things . . . Our graces may be many, our ideals high, our errors not too many; but ... we must learn [that] much of the art of medicine resolves itself into the art of listening...