Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course Vag could have sold the extra ticket, but he never quite had the nerve to post a notice on the bulletin board. The defeat of it all overwhelmed him--to have to admit to some eager sophomore that he hadn't gotten a date for the game. So Saturday approached and arrived and Vag set off for the game with a pair of fake binoculars filled with bourbon to fill the void left by a date...
...worked with Douglas on the DC-3, he encouraged the firm to build the four-motored, long-range DC-6s, boldly ordered a fleet of 125 DC-6s and shortrange, two-engined Consolidated Vultee CV-240s. As usual, he showed himself a master at timing and bargaining. So eager was Consolidated (now Convair) for orders to relieve its postwar slump that he got the 240s for the rock-bottom price of $225,000 each; even now, American is selling them for nearly what it paid...
India. West German industrialists are eager to invest in India, he said-if they get 51% partnership in the capital of new industries. Indian private enterprise, he told Nehru, should have more freedom, and India should beware of "too much planning." Foreign investors want guarantees against "political risks...
...years. If a man wants to join a union, and it's in his interest to do so, we let him go right ahead. A "Right to Work" law would be absurd in Britain." A Californian manufacturer behind him overhears, turns around, and the pair are soon in eager debate over their coffee cups...
...steel, rubber, paint) Cyrus Eaton called his talk "A Capitalist Looks at the Commissars" and his audience-a National Press Club luncheon in Washington-sat popeyed at what they heard. On his recent trip to Russia, Eaton was so impressed with Soviet good will and "dedication to work," so eager to believe in a Khrushchev who had offered him palmolive-branch assurances ("He wants to make peace with us. He wants to get along . . ."), that he pooh-poohed the Hungarian suppression as not the Russians' fault at all and added that "the Hungarian issue is a phony one." With...