Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deny," he said, "that I myself and thousands of other Portuguese patriots are dissatisfied with the present regime and eager for political freedom, but dreaming is one thing and action is another." The critical opinion of the judges was definitely unfavorable: three years in prison. Before the verdict was even announced, Galvão got busy sawing away the iron bars of his detention cell. Caught in the act and led off to another cell, he shouted defiantly: "The last act of this drama has not yet been written...
Britain's capitulation left France and Israel still defiant of Egypt, but in different ways-Israel eager to use the canal immediately, France angrily hoping to continue a Boycott for better terms. ''Little by little all our friends are walking out on us in felt slippers . . . even Britain, our comrade in misfortune last November," sighed France's L'Economie. But the show of outrage put up by France's Premier Guy Mollet had more to do with internal politics than foreign policy. French shipping interests were no more eager than the British to lose...
...fact two of them. The speeches could not match Khrushchev's in sensation, but the stir that they are making in Communist lands (Westerners have yet to get a full text) shows that if Mao is in fact bidding for "ideological equality" with Moscow, he will have eager supporters in the satellites, whose leaders are anxious to see "many roads to Socialism" encouraged in preference to the monolithic made-in-Moscow theorizing. In particular, the Poles have what the U.S. State Department jestingly calls a "China Lobby," eager to propagate and if necessary exaggerate China's influence...
...audience that any show can command has been cut down by the growing competition of the fast-rising ABC network and independent stations. Thus, advertisers will have to pay more to reach a given number of viewers in the future. It is making them nervous, safe-playing, and eager for "the sure thing." This season, a Variety rundown showed last week, they have canceled 55 of the 121 nighttime shows on the three networks. Next fall will see TV's most drastic change in program schedules-and the least promising...
...prancing white stallion (loaned from a local livery stable), decked in the soaring wings of Pegasus and tied to a gigantic dictionary, chomped the red apple which adorned the red ribbon which separated the eager onlookers from the entrance...