Word: eager
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...enterprises of the American people is defeatist and in defiance of the facts. If this conception of the American future is permitted to go on dominating our national policy, a sense of frustration and futility will increasingly dull the venturesomeness of millions of Americans who are normally courageous and eager to take the risks of pioneering economic developments...
From the press box eager eyes were fixed on the urns and a ripple of surprise began as it was seen that only white papers-favorable to the Premier-were being dropped by the balloting deputies. When the vote was announced as 534-to-0, P. J. Philip cabled the New York Times: "This unanimity is a new thing. It represents a political development of enormous importance." Not once since war began had the whole House supported the Government. To friends and foes, France meant to get on with the war, and meant business...
...debate that has occupied these last two days," declared Chamber Speaker Edouard Herriot amid an eager hush, "has enabled us to dissipate certain legends and establish the truth-the comforting truth. It has permitted the Premier to explain his course to us confidentially, in a manner that was simple and familiar and by that fact infinitely moving. It has finally permitted Parliament to play its full role. ... In two days there has been confirmed in decisive fashion our national unanimity which is inalienable because it is founded on liberty and the passionate love of country." The whole House rose...
...eager apothecary who advertised: FALSE EYES AND DENTAL PLUMBING INSERTED BY THE LATEST METHODISTS...
...part of the artist to be either obscene or vulgar; and indications of such a motive seem to be lacking in Grosz's work. Generally speaking, I would criticize Grosz on neither technical nor moral grounds; it can be admitted, however, that he is too picayune, too eager to seize upon comparatively insignificant, if true, aspects of humanity for the purpose of acrimonious accentuation. Substituting his name for that of Zola, "Everyone defecates; only Grosz bothers about...