Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening gong, the traders began milling around the 18 stock trading posts. The biggest crowd jammed around Post No. 4, where two specialists handle the buying & selling of G.M. stock. Up rose a babble of cries. "I'll take 2,500 shares," offered one eager buyer. So many cried to buy "at the market" that the specialists, flipping through the sell orders on their books, had to huddle with a governor of the Exchange to set a fair opening price...
...Wild Look? Traditionally, the bull gets a wild light in his eye when the public comes in-the thousands of eager buyers who think that the market is something like a horse race and that it's no trick to pick the winner. The public last week was not yet in the market, but it was beginning to take an increasing interest in the form sheet. Around the nation, brokers' offices were filling up with excited newcomers wanting to know what was being bought by the mysterious and nebulous group of big speculators known as "they," so that...
...America's vigor and promise. He could sound paternally tender of its youth ("America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation . . .") and he could grow lyrical, in his strangely dissonant way, over a New York crowd-"a crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at. There is none of the melancholy, the sullenness, the unhealth of the London mass, none of the worn vivacity of Paris...
...arms and Huk rebels in the mountains. Filipinos were crying for more. Manilans tell the story of an ex-bootblack who makes a living hanging around Coke machines and selling 10-centavo pieces (the only coins that fit the machines) for 15 centavos to thirsty people who are too eager to go and get the proper change...
...throats throughout the rest of Africa and Asia make a vision almost too dazzling for Cokemen to bear. A new bottling plant, complete with badminton courts to attract youthful customers, is about to open in Bombay, India. Japan, where all production is still going to U.S.-occupation personnel, is eager for civilian Coke. Most indigenous palates which have sampled the G.I.s' drink have been pleased. Sighed one Tokyo waitress: "It has the sweet-and-bitter taste of first love...