Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daily life, that it is hard to realize that most of it was re-enacted and that some of it was invented. The Grandfather is very anxious to repair and enlarge the house, which has begun to sag and crack along one corner; the women are fully as eager to bring in electric current. They can't afford both in the same year. Grandfather yields to the women; and when he dies, that fall, the house is still unmended. This little conflict between fundamental repair and labor-saving technology becomes a powerful, compassionate image of the plight of modern...
Catch. In Tokyo, Ichiro Akimoto, 60, advertised for a bride to share the tidy income he makes rolling new cigarettes from butts, heard from 2,100 eager applicants...
...church, usually identified as 'fundamentalist,' has sought to preserve the Christian heritage by denying every achievement of science . . . and by wrapping the essential truths of the Christian faith in obscurantism. . . . The other section of the church, usually defined as 'liberal'. . . has been pathetically eager to relate itself creatively to the achievements of a secular age-so eager, in fact, that it . . . has been inclined to sacrifice every characteristic Christian insight if only it could thereby prove itself intellectually respectable. . . . Modern man's faith in progress is at such complete variance with a history which presents...
...curiosity of the gals who storm the doors of the court room. . . . If I had not seen them, I know I would have been consumed with curiosity to peer at Mrs. Snyder and Judd Gray. . . . It is only a slight variation of the same curiosity that makes me eager to see . . . a great baseball player...
Agents & Bottle-Bombs. The authorities, eager to make a big catch, were happy to let Emmet's hopes and fancies grow into a substantial capital offense. As his plans went forward and his workmen turned out an arsenal of pikes, bottle-bombs, grenades and scaling ladders, informers peeped in at the windows of the "secret" depots, or eavesdropped on the excited workmen when they retired to the pubs. Soon the authorities knew that Emmet's hopes were not confined to Dublin alone, that he had been promised support from all parts of Ireland-undependable promises which his "sanguine...