Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the ist Cavalry Division, which had landed earlier at Pohang (see below), arrived to give the 24th the relief it so sorely needed and deserved. The new arrivals were fresh and eager. Their commander, Major General Hobart Gay, promised a bottle of champagne to any man who got a Communist tank. As Gay's men moved up to the front, they met the gaunt, bone-tired G.I.s of the 24th Division, some barefooted, some almost naked, all staggering from exhaustion...
...military fundamentalist, Walker believes wholeheartedly in the ancient military dictum that a man must learn to obey orders before he can give them. Of Patton's many commendations, Walker prized this one the most: "Of all the corps I have commanded, yours has always been the most eager to attack and the most reasonable and cooperative...
Elmer & Soy Beans. With eager youngsters flocking to work for him, Mike's organization was flourishing; Elmer's was in bad shape from age and disuse. In alarm, crusty old Elmer began stumping the state. He pointed to the federal money he had gotten the state because of his seniority, plaintively warned that "a baby could grow up before a younger man could do the state any good." With a campaign kitty raised by oil and utility companies, he showered the state with pamphlets ("What Elmer Thomas Has Done for Soy Beans") and ads ("Can We Keep Tinker...
Willys-Overland was handed a $22 million order for 8,350 jeeps, its biggest in five years. To Reo Motors went a contract to make 3,900 "Eager-Beaver" heavy-duty trucks for the Army at a cost of $24 million. But since both orders had been on the books before war's outbreak, and no new ones had been placed, automakers thought there was not yet any prospect of a cutback in civilian auto production; cars rolled off assembly lines last week at a record clip of 70 a minute...
...past year, the Chinese Nationalist navy has blockaded Shanghai-to the chagrin of Hong Kong merchants who are eager to resume trade with Red China. In May, when the Nationalists abandoned their naval base on Chusan Island, 100 miles from Shanghai, Hong Kong was sure that the Nationalists could not keep up their blockade. The Nationalists vowed that they would. When Hong Kong traders laughed off warnings, sent their ships to Shanghai anyway, the Nationalists threw their Formosa-based air force into the fight...