Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communists Move In. When news of the shootings reached India, riots broke out and effigies of Salazar were hanged and burned. At this point, soul force was all but forgotten. Communists were in the forefront of the agitating, eager to cock a snoot at NATO partner Portugal. In Bombay, police fired on the rioters, wounding 85. The mob retaliated with stone-throwing, injuring 100, surged into the British High Commission building, smashed windows, manhandled the staff and demanded lowering of the Union Jack. Pakistan's office was also attacked, while 10,000 smashed up the Portuguese consulate and hoisted...
...seeing how things were going, sly Claro Recto began a retreat. He offered not to run for re-election to the Senate if Magsaysay would nominate only "tried and true" Nationalists who were party members at least six months before the 1953 nominating convention. This would disqualify all the eager amateurs in the Magsaysay-for-President movement. It would also disqualify Democrats, who had joined in supporting Magsaysay for President after first trying to run Carlos P. Romulo. Magsaysay scornfully refused to bargain with Recto, or to disinherit his most enthusiastic supporters...
...citizens-mainly a mixture of Laborites, churchmen and the more conservative Britons-have been fearfully prophesying the onslaught, forecasting an instant drop of cultural standards to the twelve-year-old level that they insist television has induced in the U.S. But other millions wait like a huge fifth column, eager for the day when they can switch their allegiance and their TV dials to multichannel reception and to something more stimulating than the toneless, grey gruel fed them...
Facing not hanging, but a top sentence of life at hard labor, Sergeant Gallagher still looked well-fed and well-groomed at week's end; he showed himself deferential and eager to help those in authority, this time his lawyers, in little ways like quickly passing the Scotch tape and paper clips along the courtroom table when they were required. "Once I get back to the States I'm not worried," Gallagher once told a reactionary. "All I have to do is to plead that I did those things under mental duress." Gallagher did not believe that...
...biggest worry for finance companies are the marginal buyers who are living beyond their incomes. In a Pennsylvania showroom last week, the wife of a $79-a-week machinist was fondly eying a $5,100 pink Lincoln Capri; in Denver, Oldsmobile Dealer Alan Hoskins told of an eager buyer who earned $400 monthly and wanted a '55 Olds. "We figured out his income after house payments, furniture payments, TV payments, and after the car payment," said Hoskins, "he'd be left with $20 a month to live. I just couldn't let him get in deeper...