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Word: eagerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshmen at BU were unusually eager to sign up for ROTC this fall. When questioned, many of them blurted out: "I don't want to be like...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

...eager monists who arrived at New Lecture Hall early to get front seats for Earl Russell's lecture were the victims of a renunciation of mind by the sponsors of the talk, when the scene was suddenly shifted to Sanders Theatre because New Lecture proved insufficient to accommodate enough spectators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matter Over Mind | 11/8/1950 | See Source »

...radio escaped, no television set was free of the hoarse exhortations and stylized imprecations of eager candidates. Professional and earnest amateur, statesman and anxious hoddypoll, they were shoving and jostling for the last, few, fatal votes from the indifferent and the uncertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Pot Boils, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

Last week Albania's eager-beaver Communist Party put itself at the head of the next anniversary parade. It sent a message of "gratitude and boundless love to Stalin on the occasion of his 71st birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Every Day's a Birthday | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Greenwich Village, an eager chewing-gum salesman complains that the girls who he thought wore the roundest of heels put out nothing but Freudian doubletalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victim of Publicity | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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