Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told," he said, "that on the one hand I'm coy and undecided and on the other hand I'm eager and anxious. I've even heard it said that I cannot make up my mind." While the newsmen scribbled, Stevenson promised to announce his decision-soon. "I shall tell you what I'm going to do," he said, "by the end of November, and possibly some time before...
...Okinawans most eager to be educated by conquerors...
...Russians came to Geneva equipped with their standard stock of hats: the hat of the champion of German unity, of the eager apostle of disarmament and world peace, of the humanitarian opponent of atomic warfare. The publicity was wonderful, and they might have left Geneva as certified international good fellows-until a quiet man made a quiet point...
...rate paintings, but it also snares some splendid ones. Among his finest recent purchases is Philip Evergood's American Shrimp Girl (opposite). One of the most versatile draftsmen alive, Evergood took obvious delight in depicting the hungry seagulls that circle the girl's head, and contrasting their eager grace with the girl's heavy-limbed, foursquare pose...
After the icy blasts and terrors of Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn, sundrenched Tahiti, lazing in the trade winds, seemed a double paradise. The island girls proved eager for the transports, if not the transits, of Venus. To Cook's 18th century mind, it was a matter of their being noble savages "who have not even the idea of indecency" but did have early know-how: "In other countries the girls and unmarried women are supposed to be wholly ignorant of what others upon occasions may appear to know . . . but here it is just contrary. Among other diversions...