Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberation Daily described the Olive incident as a result of "imperialist provocation," and added that Mr. Olive's "education" would serve as an example to all other provocative foreigners. Some American observers, eager not to provoke the Communists any further, looked for the silver lining. One reported that the incident had at least resulted in "some sort of working relationship" with the Communists...
...accomplish this, Conant said, "first of all the citizen must become a real enthusiast about our great democratic experiment; he must be eager to forward those ideals which are the premises of the experiment itself. Secondly, he must work at the task of making his belief manifest almost daily in the course of his regular life...
...much mail is pouring in from eager baldheads abroad that van Rooijen's wife has started a stamp collection. The barber already has seven girls helping him in the shop at Een. Later this month he plans to branch out; his son will open a ten-chair shop in Amsterdam...
Honor Balfour cabled: "This is a conference of worried men. From back-street boarding houses to the big, red brick Cliffs Hotel on the upper-class north shore, there's a sense of disquiet, restiveness, uncertainty. Gone are the days when delegates huddled in eager groups in cafes and lounges, heads thrust forward in lively argument, eyes shining in anticipation of a great crusade. Gone are the more recent days when, flushed with new power, they sank into easy chairs and sprawled in happy discussion, secure in the knowledge that an order to their parliamentary steamroller would change...
...with baseball's vulnerable "reserve clause" contracts (TIME, Feb. 21) still under fire and $2,800,000 in law suits pending, Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler told the prodigals that all was forgiven. All 18 were reinstated to the clubs they played for three years ago. Said Lanier, eager to get back with the Cardinals, whom he was suing for $1,500,000: "I'm delighted . . . but I won't give up my original case against the people who tossed me out of baseball...