Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these objectives. "For one thing," he said, "they made their gimmicks too obvious. They could not keep secrets. It was obvious that all the wooden buildings of Moscow had just been given fresh paint jobs. And everywhere the youth roamed in the city, the Russians were eager to brag about it. They were proud that their town was spic-and-span for the first time in 20 years...
Millions of them-young, 39, and old-are doing it. The hair-coloring fad is the biggest-booming (1956 sales: $35 million v. $3,000,000 in 1946) cosmetic lift since the invention of gay deceivers. Across the U.S., 100,000 beauty shops and drug counters are supplying eager heads with a whole spectrum of tints (cosmetologists never say "dye") that sport such come-on names as Golden Apricot, Sparkling Sherry, Fire Silver, Champagne Beige and just plain Black...
...paved road to the outside world was not completed 'until 1949. when Orval Faubus was a state highway commissioner. He trapped skunk and muskrat to help his family scratch out a living from their hill farm, and trudged five miles a day to a one-room country school. Eager for book learning, he finally managed to graduate from Huntsville High School when he was 24, three years after he married plain, amiable Alta Haskins. In 1935 he enrolled at the now-defunct Commonwealth College, a Communist-front school at Mena (pop. 4,500) in the western part...
...some of the eager buyers were incited to purchase through prurience, they were doomed to disappointment. The report itself is as devoid of racy reading matter as an economic yearbook. What made the headlines was the report's two major recommendations: that 1) homosexual behavior in private between consenting adults be no longer classed as a crime, and 2) arresting officers or complainants be no longer required to establish the fact of "annoyance" to bring prostitutes to book for soliciting...
Opening the presidential poll season for 1960, George Gallup asked Democrats and Republicans who they favored for their own party nominations. Results: among Democrats. Tennessee's never-hear-die Senator Estes Kefauver (with 29%) led Massachusetts' eager Senator John Kennedy (23%); among Republicans, Vice President Richard Nixon easily outdistanced California's Senator William Knowland (48% to 12%). Last week Pollster Gallup began pairing the top Democrats against the top Republicans, got these answers...