Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Avila food is famous in Mexico. The table is always garnished with nuts and pickles, and if guests drop in uninvited, a huge copper tray is quickly produced, burdened with half a dozen hot roast chickens. Next to the table, within reach of the eager, is a showcase with sliding plate-glass doors, its shelves always crammed with pies, Spanish coffee cake, bowls of apples baked in sirup, stewed peaches, fresh figs and pineapples...
...Eager vendors on the show have offered Bartlett sets of false teeth, even sold heads of hair for $45. Shearing of the hair-seller was done by a lady barber on a holiday who got $5 for her efforts. One young man brashly agreed to take $2 for every pint of milk he could wring from a cow named Lucky that Bartlett brought to the studio. At show's end, he had made just $2. Other You Sell Me chores are blowing up large balloons till they break, trying to kick oneself in the pants. To protect his show...
Their morale should be the concern of everyone interested in this country's today and in its tomorrow. A generation, or a portion of one, which feels that it has no stake in this society can hardly be counted upon to strive with eager energy for its preservation...
...week's crop of eager joiners would probably not be the last. These were no surprise candidates. Hungary has long been the steadfast sycophant of Germany. She was the first to climb aboard the Anti-Comintern Pact, and she was the first to gain territories with the help of the Axis. Rumania, at whose expense the more recent gains were made, joined because she had to. There were some 15,000 German soldiers garrisoned in Rumania last week as a grim guarantee of friendship. Most people thought of Slovakia as part of Greater Germany (actually the area...
...Bulgaria's is an agrarian economy -more than 80% of the 6,000,000 population is dependent on agriculture, compared with 3½% in all industries. Hungry Germany takes a large majority of Bulgarian produce, and supplies Bulgaria with the finished goods she needs. Furthermore the Axis was eager to press on Bulgaria's behalf her revisionist claims-a corridor to the Aegean through Greece, part of Macedonia from Yugoslavia, bits of Thrace from Turkey...