Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within minutes after Stevenson made his announcement, no delegate could buy his own drink and no elderly lady could cross a Chicago street without help from an eager vice-presidential candidate. The once-foot-dragging Jack Kennedy suddenly became a bounding ball of energy, stayed up most of the night looking for votes. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey (the only avowed candidate when the convention opened), Tennessee's Albert Gore and New York's Bob Wagner all hurled themselves bodily into the struggle, but, predictably, it was Estes Kefauver who covered the most ground, shook the most hands...
...regard to your July 30 People item on "yare-proportioned" Miss Universe: Which of the three meanings of this archaic word are you using? 1) ready; 2) eager, active; 3) easily worked, manageable...
Last year, at Peking's bidding, Souphanou Vong launched an unfruitful three-battalion attack against the Nationalists-but nobody now seemed to hold it against him. In the capital of Vientiane, the Laotians, eager for an end to civil war, insisted that mustachioed, Paris-educated Souphanou Vong is a Communist only because he hates the French and fears his domineering Communist wife. Word was that Souphanou Vong even washes his wife's underthings in the family washtub "because she likes me to." Some knew that he had been sent to Red China for indoctrination, but they...
...While eager prospectors searched for oil all around the world, beneath the sea and in the mountains, high-living Houston last week took a look under its garbage and found black gold. An independent driller, Trice Production Co., brought in a rich (140 bbls. daily) well from 8,000 ft. below the city dump, and gave it an appropriate label: "Houston City Dump...
Composer Persichetti suggests a poem by e. e. cummings as a Christmas hymn. First verse: purer than purest ptire whisper of whisper so, so (big with innocence) forgivingly a once of eager glory, no more miracle may grow...