Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ready and I am anxious and I am eager and, yes, I am hungry," Clapprood told the crowd of about 150. Speaking of welfare programs, social security benefits and Medicaid, Clapprood reminded her audience that "these were programs born and created not of the Republican party, but of the Democratic party...
...fact, he has inherited the whirlwind sown by decades of benign neglect, misplaced priorities and outright incompetence at every level of government. If during the city's close brush with bankruptcy during the 1970s Gerald Ford was willing to let New York drop dead, the Reagan Administration seemed eager to bury it. Since 1980, cutbacks in federal aid have cost New York billions, with funds for subsidized housing alone dropping $16 billion. Despite a series of state and local levies that now place New Yorkers among the most heavily taxed citizens in the nation, the city has never recovered from...
...HARVARD STUDENTS may think I'm being oversensitive by not wanting to talk about Harvard. Aren't I just another Harvard elitist? After all, the vast majority of college students I met this summer were all eager to talk about their schools--from their school's U.S. News & World Report rankings to Greek life...
...Readers eager to forget the dispiriting 1988 Bush-Dukakis race might be put off by the dust jacket of this book. It promises that would-be First Lady Kitty Dukakis will take us "behind the scenes to show us what it was really like on the national campaign trail." But never fear. She does nothing of the kind. The closing weeks of the campaign -- the last rallies, the absence of her preferred hairdresser on election night, the finale, the concession speeches -- occupy two pages, roughly half the space devoted to a subsequent river-rafting trip during which Kitty learned that...
That tradition changed somewhat during the Vietnam War, with its confused purposes, enterprising reporters eager to roam in harm's way in search of the truth, and absence of military censorship. In fact, there are those who argue that Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America, that the nightly TV footage of body bags and burning villages turned hearts and minds against the war. Hardly surprising, then, if the Pentagon should try to avoid the pattern of Vietnam by keeping the press on a short leash whenever American troops go into action...