Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other political and debating groups were reticent about actively promoting Mrs. Gaynor's attempts to publicize the Communist-directed youth conventions. The political forum does not object to Mrs. Gaynor's speaking at the University, but is not "eager" about her visit, and certainly would not undertake to sponsor her, chairman William C. Brady, president of the New Conservative Club said...
Camphor balls and chrysanthemums mingled their odors in stately Meiji Memorial Hall last week as eager bridegrooms in rented cutaways thronged Tokyo's biggest marriage center to claim their kimonoed brides. In the corridors couples stood ten and twelve deep, waiting to go through the sake-drinking ceremony known as three-times-three-is-nine. Between marriages, the blue-and-white-robed Shinto priests, whose duty it is to provide suitable flute music, raced to washrooms to soak their aching fingers in hot water...
...field the Fine Arts Department is able to offer an impressive list of courses from which the non-concentrator may choose without being at a disadvantage from lack of technical knowledge. If the great popularity of Music I is any criterion, there are many undergraduates like myself who are eager to pursue further their interest in more specific fields of music, as they have every chance of doing in Fine Arts...
...Nuts." After that testimonial, reporters asked if the President seemed eager to get back to work. Said Infantryman Monty, mixing a cavalry metaphor: "He's biting the curb. I think he's eager to resume the reins." Then reporters asked Press Secretary Hagerty to comment on recurring suggestions that the President might resign if he decides not to run again. Said Hagerty: "You can take it in either of two words, or you can take it in one: no or nuts. Does that answer that one?" Cracked Monty: "That's what you call a fast ball...
...Tokyo's International Trade Fair Hall was transformed into a five-story reproduction of a Mandarin palace. A pair of ferocious papier-mache lions guarded the doors. On opening day firecrackers sputtered, a red and gold dragon writhed in the streets and clouds of confetti burst over the eager crowds. Then it rained for a week and the lions began to come apart. By last week the enthusiasm for the fair of many of Tokyo's businessmen, who have been clamoring for free trade with China, had also dampened. The new "people's democracy" across the East...