Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Full of the eager anticipation which all playgoers (except dramatic critics) share, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt taxied up to New York's Mansfield Theater. With her were her secretary, Malvina ("Tommy") Thompson and a onetime youth leader, pinko Joe Lash. The play they had come to see: In Time to Come. As Mrs. Roosevelt stepped out of her cab, to her horror she came face to face with a picket line...
From hillsides bordering the harbor, San Franciscans saw the convoy slide under Golden Gate Bridge, the ships' black and grey daubed sides barely distinguishable from fog and water. Word spread quickly. Down to the docks, as close as armed guards would let them approach, rushed hundreds of eager, worried men and women: parents whose sons had been in the battle of Pearl Harbor, relatives of families left stranded in Hawaii when the attack came. They stood in the chill drizzle, waiting...
Realizing for the first time the dire possibility of air raids on their country, the U.S. people acted like hens in a barnyard at the rumble of a sudden summer storm. Some were apathetic and carefree, some panic-stricken, many more earnest and eager to be helpful. Everywhere was a great cackling. Little hen-shaped Fiorello LaGuardia, head of the Office of Civilian Defense, glared out over a U.S. that was mostly confused and unprepared...
...class was eager for action; most of them will soon get it. Certain changes in assignments will be necessary: a few men had been assigned to the U.S.S. Arizona; many had applied for service in the Atlantic (before war broke in the Pacific...
Designers of women's clothes, always eager to ride a trend, worked their imaginations overtime. Sally Victor created a fireproof glass-and-asbestos hat, padded inside against cold and bumps, with a flashlight in the brim. Warborn was a handbag containing a bottle of luminous paint and a flap on which messages could be written...