Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manner of one who truly loves his club and its members-not for what they may be individually, but simply because they are members of the club. William Fife Knowland, 48, Republican from California, minority leader of the Senate, was back in his element, pleased with his lot, and eager to come to grips with the conflicts facing a party that has just triumphantly won the White House, and lost control of the Congress...
...American or Look, or permanently cancel the newsmen's passports. Nor did it threaten to impose the maximum penalty for violating passport restrictions: $2,000 fine and five years in prison. It was apparent that the State Department, though anxious to discourage other China-minded newsmen, was not eager to start a war with the U.S. press on its right to gather news...
...instinctively checking every construction detail. For no man knows better than Paul Allman Siple that the antarctic tolerates few mistakes, permits even fewer second chances. At 48, Paul Siple (rhymes with disciple) has spent more time on the continent than any other person. He came there first as an eager, wide-eyed Sea Scout with the Byrd expedition of 1928-30; when he leaves it for the sixth time, in February 1958, some 5½ years of polar life will lie behind...
...large-scale help was on the way. After Dr. Urquhart's wife wrote a nontechnical article in the American Museum of Natural History's magazine Natural History, eager volunteers came forward, and butterfly-tagging started on a continent-wide scale. Again, failure. It soon became apparent that the labels were not sticking in wet weather...
...most devoted, perhaps, of all the stern young abbe's admirers was the rosy-cheeked peasant girl Régine, with whose family the priest often dined on Saturdays. Eager to help in his work. Régine took on the job of tending the church altar and the sacerdotal robes, and her kindly parents were proud indeed of their daughter -proud, that is, until one day early this year when Régine told them that she was pregnant and refused to name the father of her unborn child...