Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morocco's touring King Mohammed V, eager to see all he could of the U.S. in 16 days, almost had reason to regret his wanderlust, so rapidly was he whisked hither and yon. At Disneyland, the King successfully took the throttle of the locomotive that draws a miniature 1890-style train around the park. While in Texas, Mohammed decided to summon his four daughters-Lalla Aisha, 27, (TIME, Nov. 11), Lalla Malika, 20, Lalla Nuzha, 17, and little Lalla Amina, 4-from Rabat, to share with them the last six days of his whirlwind visit. He sped...
...drama, he had some 10,000 people in Portland, Ore., one of the U.S.'s 99 "critical targets," go through the motions of mass evacuation on the day "enemy" aircraft approached from the Aleutians, The Day Called X. Rasky's twelve-man technical crew, aided by publicity-eager federal Civil Defense experts and convoyed about the city by police motorcycle escort for three weeks, ably caught the mood of the day that began in an ordinary way. The cameras poked neatly around the well-stocked innards of the city's steel-and-concrete underground operations center...
Mutual friends recall that the gentle Alice, alarmed by the impetuous, eager young Theodore, sometimes attempted to discourage him. On these occasions, T. R. would be plunged into despair. Pringle reports that one night during the first winter of the courtship an alarmed classmate telegraphed to New York that Roosevelt was somewhere in the woods near Cambridge and refused to come home. A close cousin, who hurried up, managed somehow to soothe him; and soon his confidence returned...
...contemptuously allow him access to their wives, and soon the secretly gloating Horner has a harem. From Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, Wycherley took his ingenuous young country wife, who is not quite carefully enough guarded by a jealous husband, and who proves as eager a pupil as Horner is a teacher...
Eloise observes the French scene with a sharp eye that would have done credit to Voltaire or Art Buchwald. She is always eager to share her discoveries, whether it is the excellent advice that "you cawn't cawn't cawn't get a good cup of tea so you have to have champagne" or the poignant historical observation that "there are absolutely no kings in France." accompanied by a shattering picture of this child Jacobin dancing her version of the carmagnole in Versailles' Hall of Mirrors. With near-genius she manages to use Paris...