Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place called Patrick Henry Airport. Spaced among a dozen occasions of ceremonial pomp, they spent the day touring the old, restored towns of Williamsburg and Jamestown, which is celebrating the 350th anniversary of the first permanent British settlement on American shores. Through it all, crowds of eager-eyed onlookers strained at the heavily guarded barriers, marveled at Elizabeth's cordially regal attitude, Philip's smiling nonchalance. "Say," said one man, "she's a lot thinner." Murmured a woman: "She looks like her father...
...seven days eager-eyed politicians trooped into the teak-lined office of Pakistan's President Iskander Mirza to bid for the job of Prime Minister, from which he had just evicted Hussein Suhrawardy. None quite measured up to the President's notions. Then, looking no farther than his partner across the bridge table, Strongman Mirza found just the weak-man he wanted: Ismail Ibrahim Chundrigar, 60, a colorless, back-room politician with almost no popular support...
...alarm, finally began to choke back on credit, raise taxes and cut down on public spending. Not even conservative, thrifty Denmark has escaped inflation. Denmark has a per capita income of $807, above average for Europe. Recently the Danes discovered that they were living too well. Lulled by the eager world market for their dairy products, bacon, beer, machinery and ships, they let wages, prices and production costs rise so high that they no longer are competitive in their old markets. Nevertheless, unions pressed successfully last year for higher wages despite the fact that unemployment was up to 10%, thus...
...monetary and technical assistance has been largely responsible for the maintenance of this strong counter-weight on Russia's southern borders, providing heavy subsidies for road building, harbor developments, and industrial construction as well as for strict military needs. But American help has been more than matched by the eagerness of the Turks themselves to develop a military force capable of restraining the Russians, for whom they bear an ingrained contempt. The Turks have been so eager to fight Communists, in fact, that they volunteered a highly effective brigade of troops for duty in Korea under the United Nations flag...
...this cheery note that Perri is introduced to the hard facts a squirrel is up against in the world of Walt Disney. She is mauled by a goshawk, ripped up by a weasel, and almost torn to pieces by a marten-a lean and eager individual with a bright red tongue that lolls out in an unpleasant way. A forest fire burns down her house, and she winds up in the middle of a beaver pond, riding on the back of a bobcat. On top of all this, Perri will probably not get much sympathy from the critics...