Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...weight and speed took the big (74-ft. wingspan) Heinkel through the top of an apartment house, well into a group of seaside villas beyond. There followed a shattering roar of gas tanks and bombs. Firemen, ambulancemen, air-raid wardens hurried to the flaming wreck. Behind them an eager, half-dressed crowd collected. Windows went...
...they-hired-the-money attitude, it protests partial settlement offers by the debt-laden Republics, thereby revives traditional Latin American resentment against the Shylock of the North. Extremists in the South are hardboiled governments (Mexico's, Bolivia's) which assume that the U. S. has the jitters. Eager to capitalize on Washington's fear that the Fascist axis will undermine the Monroe Doctrine, they would kid the U. S. into canceling the bonds, highjack new credits in the name of hemisphere security...
...cling to those ideals which those great Americans who have gone before us gave unto us. ... I shall ever be mindful of the fact that if our community is to experience a resumption of prosperity . . . such resumption can only come when ... the proud plumes of smoke from the eager fires of our industries are backward blown, when our forests ring with the harmonious din of the woodsman's ax, when our mills resound with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars...
...down a motion approving U. S. economic assistance to the Allies as the quickest and surest way to prevent war's spread to this country. Instead, the delegates adopted a plank of strict isolation. Other chief concern of the delegates was unemployment. Keynoted Maynard C. Krueger (rhymes with eager) of the University of Chicago: "We Socialists are not interested in trying to make the Capitalist system work. Hoover and Roosevelt have tried that and proved that it can't be done." Private business representing production for profit instead of production for use, said he, has failed. The people...
...small part of Kimball's success (and a potent budget-balancing aid) is his ability to find eager, knowing young assistants who work hard for small pay. Several of his curators-Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, Henry Clifford, Boies Penrose -are so well off that Kimball affectionately calls them "my millionaires." Down into their pockets dig these three for many of the museum's top-flight special exhibitions. Even more significant is a growing list of "my young men" who now head important U. S. museums and got their first museum training under Kimball at Philadelphia. Some of them: Director...