Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeply felt, typically American faith that though it wouldn't be easy, the U.S. would somehow climb out of this hole. No one was eager for war; it would be harder to go than last time-jobs were better, bank accounts bigger, cars were never newer, and the U.S. knew (partly) what war meant. Veterans said resignedly: "If they want me, they know where to find me." But there was no suggestion that Korea was far away and none of our business. The U.S. citizen, who had had to be told that Hitler was a threat, didn...
Democrats and Republicans alike had been hearing from constituents who were overwhelmingly in favor of price controls, though not so eager for either wage controls or rationing-which both Harry Truman and Bernard Baruch agreed go hand in hand with price control. Pennsylvania's Republican John Kunkel announced in the House that he was going to introduce an all-out, Baruch-like control bill. Since this reversed the Republicans' previous stand, Truman Democrats suspected a trap. There was no machinery ready to ration all goods and police all prices across the land; the Administration feared chaos would result...
...were in for a hard summer. With lessons learned, friends lopped off, girdle smoothed down, and a misleading air of roguish innocence, Miss Carlyle's eager lovelies were already ranging the world-perhaps in the next deck chair...
...Catt of Saint John, N.B. went fishing on the Miramichi River, where salmon are so numerous and eager that they have been known to attack a man wearing a bright necktie with a design of hand-painted trout flies. Catt had just settled down to fish when a white-bearded old man came along, spoke sadly of his yearning to catch one last salmon and asked to borrow the rod & line. Catt had barely handed over the tackle when a fighting salmon shot out of the water, twisting & turning the line around the old man's whiskers. Quick-thinking...
...busy that he commutes between jobs in his own DC-3, Jack Sverdrup, now 52, was eager to tackle his new assignment in supersonics, happily described it as "waltzing around in unknown pastures...