Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willkie is so eager for a debate ... I suggest that he challenge his running mate, Senator McNary, with whom he is at greater variance . . . than . . . with the President...
...Republican Government that we lost public confidence resulting in our downfall." Ignored was Prieto's advice. Cantinflas is now popularizing a new verb in the Mexican language. The verb is "cantinflear," which means to talk much, say little, indulge in wild non sequiturs. Cantinflas constantly rebuffs German propagandists eager to use the popular theatre in Mexico to get the Führer's message across...
...property of persons who fled from France unless they return and provide "good reasons" for their flight. That Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, who arrived in the U. S. by Clipper with $1,000,000 worth of jewels in a little bag, would return to France and the eager hands of Chief Heinrich Himmler's ransoming Gestapo was not expected. Other estates were also confiscated in the effort to grovel for Nazi favor, including those of Louis Rosengart, manufacturer of France's "baby Fords," and famed Journalists Genevieve Tabouis, Andre Geraud ("Pertinax"), Pierre Lazareff and Henri de Kerillis...
Actually no one was cocky, but few funked: victory would come some day if not soon. Meanwhile, people were eager to make every useful sacrifice, such as donating kitchens full of aluminum for aircraft production. In north county industrial towns, where repeated air raids had wrecked many homes, people still tried to behave as if the nightly trip to shelters was a picnic outing. London reviews were crowded with people who could laugh uproariously at war-flavored jokes. Housewives were still in the mood and the money to shop, and flower stands were loaded with the best and gayest flowers...
...employed mechanics, or 2) unemployed (registered with the State Employment Service) with some machine experience, to be put through ten-week brush-up courses for work in U. S. armament factories. Many an applicant wanted to know how much he would be paid while studying (answer: nothing). Many another, eager to serve Uncle Sam, had given up his job to enroll. Among the applicants were night watchmen, janitors, clerks, boys who had never worked. Housewives phoned to recommend their husbands, explained that although the husbands were not mechanics by trade, they were handy around the house. Garment workers mistakenly enrolled...