Word: eager
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good luck sent Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the British Navy's triumph over the Admiral Graf Spee (see p. 20) to divert public interest from any Government shortcomings in the conduct of the war. Jubilant M. P.s, convinced more than ever that Britain rules the waves and eager to get away for the holidays, gave the Cabinet easy sailing...
...crews slid into the two heavy turrets fore and aft and dogged the traps after them. The huge barrels nodded as if eager to belch. Lines of fire hose were dragged out on deck and left sputtering into the waterways. The decks emptied...
After the Hollywood press preview, Producer Selznick stood in the lobby, scanning the faces of the "toughest audience in the world" with as much eager ness as any tyro at his own first play...
Republicans eager to steal the New Deal's thunder minimized the Hoover prestige, magnified the Hoover unpopularity. They dismissed Hoover's county organizations, said it was just the ex-President going round and round in little circles. And in California, even Hoover aides and allies indignantly denied that the ex-President's activities were political, pictured him as the intellectual leader of a cause. As for thunder-stealing, said they, the New Deal's thunder was now a low faint rumble far over the hills. But everybody recognized that, whether talking politics or philosophy...
...whole, the Conference speakers seemed eager to play down the role of propaganda in affecting the courses of history. The main influence of propaganda, it was generally felt, was in the realm, of education...