Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer a case where the Freshmen themselves are apathetic, as in last summer's experiments with class unity. The Yardlings have shown, by giving the Student Fund more support than any other group in the College, and by the attitude with which they do it, that they are as eager as any other Freshman Class to become a part of Harvard. They are aware that the next three months may be their only chance. And unless the Houses take the lead soon, that chance will be too little, and will come too late...
Relatively green but eager to show the Marines (whose refrain "Where the hell is the Army?" had been ringing in their ears for two months at rear bases), the newly arrived Army men peeled back the Japs for nearly seven miles, beyond Koli Point to the Metapono River...
...Americans who think of spies in terms of the movie-made breed of sinister villain, Ernest Burger was a distinct surprise. His grey suit was neat and quiet, his thin brown hair slicked down tightly, his deep-set blue eyes calm. As a witness he was courteous, cooperative, almost eager. Only once did he seem at all what everyone had expected: a young, heel-clicking stalwart of Hitler's "master race." That was when, needled because his attorney asked him if he had been promised immunity for testifying for the U.S., he stiffened, shot out his jaw and said...
...proposals; he suggested that Congress leaders try to reach agreement with the Moslem League. He went even further and proposed that Congress recognize the right of India's Moslem minority to form a separate State if it wished. C. R. is obviously the very reverse of doctrinaire. His eager sincerity is clear from his actions...
...conception of the warplane is emerging in Europe. Today it is the Flying Fortress (B17) and Liberator (B-24). Tomorrow it will be the air dreadnought -not only capable of bombing the earth below but able and eager to fight anything aloft...