Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottle," he exclaimed as a Colgate back cracked through for yardage. The President, who once coached the plebe team, grinned broadly when Army hung onto a 12-7 lead until the final whistle. Next morning he fidgeted nervously outside the hotel waiting for a tardy officer, so eager was he to do a tour of the Point. He sat listening intently through a class lecture on military history (subject: Was Lee justified in his campaign at Antietam?), took the review of the parading corps of cadets in their tar-bucket hats and grey uniforms...
...very eager that he should return for a second year of work in these longer forms, but did not know till later that, though equally eager, his means at the moment made this impossible...
...combination of a muddy field and damaging injuries to both squads, will make the game a close one, although a slight edge has been given to Penn, eager for its first win of the year and playing before a partisan Homecoming Day crowd
...little man's awe of the tycoons soon rubbed off. Prime targets such as Nelson Rockefeller, RCA's David Sarnoff and Marcel Palmaro, head of Lehman Bros.' foreign department, were soon being buttonholed by Burmese industrialists, Taiwan manufacturers, Brazilian bankers. Projects from underdeveloped countries eager for foreign capital were produced by the hatful. India is ready to open its great bamboo forest in the Mysore province for paper and pulp production if it can get $8,500,000 in foreign exchange in return for half ownership. India's Orissa province needs $1,500,000 in foreign...
...outside loans to replace the deferred 25%. Though full payment will come when the Air Force gets more money at the end of fiscal 1958 or when money loosens because of heavier Treasury receipts, the feast-and-famine aircraft business is such a questionable risk that few banks are eager to lend scarce funds. Those who do get interim financing may have to pay higher interest rates than other industries. And since the extra cost cannot be recovered under most defense contracts, it will also mean a sharp cut in profit margins...