Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From two days of testimony before the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight last week emerged the two faces of Bernard Goldfine. The first face, carefully shaped by lawyers and flacks (see box next page), was that of a humble, eager-to-please immigrant who had come to wealth and awakened astonished one day to find his name "in the newspapers all over America because of gifts and hospitality to a friend of almost 20 years." The second Goldfine told more about how he had become a millionaire in Massachusetts' tough, no-quarter textile and real estate world; that...
Connecticut. Democrats meeting in Hartford to choose a senatorial candidate bypassed the eager politicking of ex-Governor Chester Bowles and ex-Senator William Benton, onetime Manhattan advertising partners, instead picked former Congressman Thomas J. Dodd, 51, hardworking, seasoned politico, who will run against Republican Incumbent William A. Purtell...
...much of which is tribal and local and asserts its authority now largely because the government does not or cannot. Many leaders of the Moslem Arabs themselves are politicians used to playing Lebanese politics according to the rules that Chamoun has tried to change, and are by no means eager to submerge themselves, and the economic advantages of being Lebanese, into Nasser's economically desperate empire...
...teams got to Sweden, they ran into new hazards. Sweden's own team was one of the tournament favorites, and younger Swedish fans, combining patriotism with sophisticated self-interest, gave the visitors a delightfully wearing welcome. The Argentines were met by mobs of pretty blonde Swedish teen-agers eager to test the reputation of the passionate Latins. After too many friendly nights in their hotel and too many embarrassing afternoons on the playing field, the weary Argentines went back to South America thoroughly whipped. They were met by angry home-town fans armed with stones and overripe vegetables...
...Professor Elmer Snoddy. Together they rapped tables, and Ford soon felt himself in his spiritual talents to be one with "Wesley, Luther, Swedenborg, Dwight Moody, not to overlook a high proportion of the saints." Miss Gertrude Tubby, secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research, encouraged the "young and eager psychic," and soon Ford was in London, way beyond the league of Snoddy, Tubby or even Moody. One night, several hundred pounds sterling worth of gems manifested themselves at a seance patronized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Ford drew a garnet...