Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explain how the President could have "ead Henry Wallace's Sept. 12. 1946 Madison Square Garden speech-which ran completely counter to the Truman foreign policy-and then told Wallace to go ahead, Allen talked fast but vaguely. "Truman had been genuinely fond of Wallace. . . . He was eager to convert Wallace to ... the necessity for firm dealing with the Soviets. . . . So he accepted the Wallace speech, partly on misplaced faith in his Cabinet officer's loyalty to the Administration. . . . After the Wallace speech was delivered, Truman had a horrified awakening. He talked with Wallace at great length...
...eager applicant wrote that a vision of radio's late Bessie Beatty visited her while she was having her hair dried in a beauty parlor, told her that she was the choice...
...began. It was a brave, if foolhardy, decision. At intermission time Madame Paray rushed over to him and screamed: "How dare you come here? I won't stand for your presence!" Then she slapped his face. From all sides his old enemies-conductors, impresarios and artists-closed in, eager to settle old scores. They pummeled the hapless critic, and kicked him right into the street...
President Truman's courage in opposing again a Congress plainly eager to demonstrate his ineffectualness is therefore laudable. The effect of his veto is likely to be the elimination of the import-fee amendment, and the final shifting of the burden to the Treasury. This act of sweeping the business out of public sight under the rug would obviously be no final answer to the wool wrangle. It would at least, though, spare America the irony of talking world stability up big at Geneva, while at the same time giving it a kick in the stomach long-distance from Washington...
...could have a solid job in publishing, but I want to be here. Last year I took History 1, Math 2, a couple of Philosophy courses, and got to know a few hundred people all over the College. I'm a settled married guy, but I'm eager as a kid about my reading. Listen, Sturdy, 'a voyage of discovery' isn't just words. I do huge amounts of outside reading, and find it thoroughly exciting. I'm getting to know my own University for the first time...