Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smiling but reticent during most of her strenuous tour across the U.S. with her husband, Nina Petrovna Khrushchev, 59, returned to Washington, agreed at last to hold a VIP-sized press conference ("not customary in my country") for eager newswomen. Self-possessed and pleasant, Nina Petrovna made a big hit, even got a laugh when in careful English she kidded Jinx Falkenburg (who was present as Pat Nixon's guest) about her beehive-shaped hat: "You look like a Ukrainian bride, no?" With the promise that "I will give you some bits of information you desire," Mrs. Khrushchev laid...
Just before her news conference, Mrs. Khrushchev had been honor guest at a lunch at a private club, with Pat Nixon the official hostess. Said Nina of American women: "They're all eager to shake hands, all very kindhearted, very friendly toward us, very much like our Russian women are toward American women. Foreign ministers spend a lot of time arguing and trying to persuade each other. It could be easier for women to reach an agreement among themselves [but] after all. less depends...
...that returned to Cambridge last week in high spirits. Not even the sad discovery that you can't drive nails into concrete walls was able to dampen his exuberance. Not even getting stuck in that high-speed, low-efficiency elevator dismayed him very much. Delwood was happy, eager, just raring...
...years Morocco's only major political force has been the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, a coalition of wealthy landowners, eager left-wing social reformers and skillful politicians united by a passionate desire for freedom from French rule. When independence came, the cement that held this unlikely combination together began to crumble, and last January the party fell apart. Its right wing is led by the conservative Allal el Fassi, 49, who is little interested in Morocco's masses, devotes much of his time to visionary schemes for a "Greater Morocco," including large chunks of the Sahara. Istiqlal...
...sports shirt, he may loaf in the garden during nonworking intervals; if it is Sunday, he will stroll to the village pub (The Hoops) for a half-pint of bitter. More often of an afternoon, he will show a visitor about his property, explaining sculptured works in a soft, eager voice almost denuded of its Yorkshire burr, describing with a loving caress along a bronze flank why it takes two or three weeks of rubbing, gouging, sanding and polishing to finish a freshly cast figure: "It's the putting on of skin." In a corner of the studio...