Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circled the room. It wasn't a large room, and so it was crowded, in a disorganized way. Most of the smoke rose from clusters around the three chess boards; most of the conversation seemed to come from a corner where two students were besieged by a crowd of eager gestures...
Because he was from a university himself, Malia managed to make many acquaintances at the University. He found that every one was eager to talk, even when they found out he was a foreigner--and an American, at that. They were all curious, anxious to hear about the United States. They even put a premium value on American cigarettes...
Since then our Paris bureau has kept close tabs on Poujade, and so has the French press. Ex-Bookseller Poujade fumed whenever TIME referred to his following of small shopkeepers and craftsmen as tax dodgers. But he was still eager when Correspondent George de Carvalho, who was his shadow all through the December election campaign, told him that TIME planned a cover story about him. "Well, let's get it over with," said Poujade. "What do you want to know?" Replied De Carvalho: "Everything." Poujade chuckled and nodded: "Go ahead...
...fond of her priest as her husband. Once in the astral world, she says she saw a lot of Father John, but Brian wasn't around much. She knows a few Irish songs, can dance an old Irish Mourning Jig, and doesn't like to cooperate when Bernstein, over-eager for the facts, asks her to spell things for him. For all Bridey's pleasantness, however, she is selling, the jacket notes, on "an unusual 12-inch long-playing record . . . available at record shops anywhere...
...young, innocent, good, humorless, a Unitarian. He speaks in the hortatory Emily Post style which all British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous and dedicated, but his eager virtue turns into fumbling crime. His idealistic dabbling in Indo-Chinese politics-he furnishes a plastic bomb to a local faction-becomes real blood on his shoes. "I must get a shine before I see the Minister," says Pyle, after his bomb explodes, killing the wrong people...