Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idea!" So eager was General Eisenhower for battle that he forswore his customary distaste for a news conference, and stayed in town to hold one last week. When the reorganization questions popped, he poured it on. First off, he knocked down the recurrent complaints that the new plan (TIME, April 14) would make a czar out of the Defense Secretary. "Let's look at the built-in constitutional guards that there are," said he. "A commander in chief over the Secretary of Defense [who in turn] is certainly not going to be very effective if four chiefs of staff...
...cards. Another recently started staying open all night, reviving the Depression custom of letting movie houses serve as places for shelter and a nap. Groceries advertise another depression standby: day-old bread. Restaurant men who used to have trouble finding enough dishwashers and porters now turn away lines of eager applicants. The police report a sharp upsurge in burglaries, thefts, armed robberies. On the other side of the law, a lot more young Detroiters are eager to wear a police uniform. Six months ago the police department had to advertise for recruits; today there is no need...
Mirajkar's election was a sample of the way Communism is gaining in India-not by dynamic thrust, but merely by being around to pick up the pieces from the disintegrating Congress Party. Once the lean, eager arm of the independence movement, the Congress Party has become rich, careless and decadent, with all power concentrated in the hands of a small band of elderly wheelhorses...
...skinny, she's tall, that's all." Worse yet is the sagging, zombie-eyed shuffle brought on by a ballad like Oh, Oh, Falling in Love. Some adult squares get the feeling that they are peeking at a hotbed of juvenile delinquency. But Bandstand gets its eager volunteers from both sides of the tracks and all parts of the nation, and a committee of youngsters enforces good manners, e.g., jackets and ties for boys, no shorts for girls. Says Clark woncleringly: "We've never had an incident...
...they delivered. The star left off his familiar earphones, strolled around the studio instead of staying behind his old desk. But Godfrey remained Godfrey: still spouting whatever came into his redhead ("He came down with the crud"), still blinking at the audience like a dyspeptic owl, still relying on eager young entertainers as his guests. As he dipped for contestants' postcards into a huge revolving drum, he made no secret of his disgust with his new giveaway "crap game" ("This is the silliest thing"), grudgingly granted wishes of winners (Easter outfits, a washing machine) until he reached the request...