Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to have come down from Moscow to keep me off." On another technicality (that all committee members be lawyers), Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, a fellow Dixiecrat of Rankin's, was also unseated. With the Administration so far in charge, the 81st Congress was on its eager...
...multitude of spectacular collisions. But there were surprisingly few penalties, though some observers claimed the penalty lack was due to lax officiating. No sentences were meted out by the referees at all during the opening session, and but one in the final twenty minutes. In between, however, various ever-eager gentlemen, mostly Harvards, resided in the little wooden chair next to the scorekeeper...
...year Republican interregnum, turned up again at the head of congressional committee tables. Veterans of the early New Deal, like West Virginia's demagogic Matt Neely, 74, unpacked in Washington, back from political exile. As in the old New Deal days, congressional corridors were crowded with eager Democratic freshmen, anxious to get their first speeches off their chests...
...Yard Police took steps. They restrained their eager lock-wielders. A hardy student who had continued to plug northward suddenly discovered his trip unobstructed. He quickly spread the word; students streamed up to the new library again; they blinked at the lighting and gaped at the pastel-colored books tacks. And Chief Randall and his faithful group of Police retired in a state of quiet but vigilant apprehension, carefully balancing the advantages of the open gates against the danger of possible nefarious incursions into the Yard from without. They have little to fear, however. Their action has gone...
When the Taft bill to give the states 300 million dollars for elementary and secondary schools failed to make the grade last year, the NEA was exceedingly put out, and produced a blizzard of publicity releases. One of them bitterly pointed out that Congress was eager to spend more than 300 million dollars on tobacco and intoxicants to be sent to Europe under the Marshall Plan--but not a penny for the "millions of American children now lacking educational opportunities." The NEA is happier this year with the Democratic victory, but it is willing to stick to the kind...