Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eager political prognosticators, seeking significant portents in last week's off-year elections, could find just about any answers they wanted to find. Democrats were pleased that they held their own in once Republican Indiana (71 Democratic cities to 36 Republican) and rejoiced over a landslide election of a Democratic Governor in Kentucky. Republicans pointed with pride to significant gains in Ohio's municipal elections and New Jersey's state assembly. One erstwhile Republican oddity emerged from oblivion to become the mayor of Salt Lake City, and another returned to it in trying to become mayor...
...have heard everything, even the most unsurprisable wore the slightly dazed air of men who have just heard a mallard endorse a shotgun. After years of unwavering hostility to Charles de Gaulle, French Communists abruptly abandoned their denunciations of his Algerian policy and made it known that they were eager to shake his hand...
...Leash. All U.S. scientists were delighted and touched by the universal friendliness of Soviet scientists. In every branch of science the Russians were eager to meet and talk with Americans. They read American journals, and in most cases are frank to admit that they measure their own progress against American work...
This kind of past double relationship might explain why Leftist Mitterrand and avowed Rightist Pesquet got together again. But for what purpose? Neither man's explanation entirely satisfied. Without offering any proof, Parisian newsmen contrived a more devious explanation: that Leftist Mitterrand and Rightist Pesquet. equally eager to discredit the regime of Gaullist Premier Michel Debre, could have collaborated in the mutual hope of toppling Debre and with the common intention of doublecrossing each other after the deed was done...
...Manhattan last week went two eager makers of business machines with audacious plans to challenge the International Business Machines Corp. in IBM's home market. The foreign businessmen: President Joseph Callies, 50, and General Manager Georges Vieillard, 64, of France's fast-rising La Compagnie des Machines Bull. Barely known outside France ten years ago, Machines Bull manufactures a line of punch-card and sorting machines topped off by computers. Recently it pulled abreast of IBM in many markets of the Continent, is now the biggest computer maker outside...