Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their brief contacts with Polish musicians, the Clevelanders discovered men of first-rate talent, starved for news of the outside musical world. Most of them were eager to try out the American orchestra's glittering instruments. Harpist Alice Chalifoux gave away most of her reserve supply of harp strings; other Clevelanders contributed fiddle strings, mouthpieces and clarinet reeds to the Polish musicians. Cleveland's First Trumpeter Louis Davidson gave one of his $300 trumpets to Trumpeter Francisek Stockfiscz of the Katowice Philharmonia (the Cleveland Orchestra management promised to buy Davidson another). "Thank you," said Stockfiscz at a formal...
Second-String Skimping. Though outmanned and out-budgeted on most big stories, and in many areas, especially the Far East, U.P. men learn early in their careers that there are ways of outfoxing A.P. For all its eager-beaver ways. U.P. coverage of run-of-the-mine news is severely hobbled by its low-budget policies, and by the fact that the A.P. has the first chance at the news developed by its 1.750 member newspapers and thus, in effect, draws on a vast pool of news that no wire service could produce independently. The U.P. has no such...
...such pilgrim-the book's narrator -is Andrew Colquhoun, a youngish Scots drifter eager to pluck the heart from Clausen's mystery, write his biography and perhaps thereby come to terms with his own restless nature. Also on the way to Clausen is an odd trio of characters: a tropical tycoon named Zuckermann, who is playing the white man's last rubber in the game of enlightened self-interest; his beautiful and enigmatic secretary. Gemma; and his top research man, a brilliant mixed-blood scientist who secretly aspires to be "a Napoleon of the black masses...
...history's grimmest ironies is that the Communists' lying assurances of their devotion to peace, democracy and progress have always found eager believers, while the Reds' truthful pinpointing of their own goals has been blandly ignored. Until it was too late, only a handful of people ever took seriously Lenin's statement that "the shortest route from Moscow to Paris is via Peiping and Calcutta." Yet who can today deny that he meant just what he said...
Salutes & a Shift. As Zoli had calculated, the Fascists and Monarchists were too eager to get back into political grace to be put off by his avowals of philosophical hostility. But when 17 Monarchists and Fascists helped him win a 132-93 vote of confidence in Italy's Senate, the whole nation rang with outrage. In the halls of Parliament, other Deputies mockingly greeted Christian Democrats with a stiff-armed Fascist salute. From the industrial north came frantic warnings that acceptance of Fascist support was sure to cost the Christian Democrats dear in next year's general election...