Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...educational legitimacy of Social Studies. An internal memo I wrote to the graduate students of my department urging them to teach in our program, and offering incentives for those who did so, was leaked by someone connected with Social Studies, and blown up by a writer at The Crimson eager for a by-line...
Howe also said "we find it difficult tounderstand why we should be willing to support'subsidized commercial' property, when there areclearly developers eager to undertake unsubsidizeddevelopment of this valuable property...
...sponsor of the hamster hunt was Earthwatch, a nonprofit organization conceived in the early 1970s by Brian Rosborough, a lawyer. Since scientists always need more manpower for their studies and never have enough money, Rosborough reasoned that they would welcome paying "Earth patriots" eager to spend a week or two on scholarly expeditions in remote places. At first Earthwatch concentrated on the physical sciences, such as the study of volcanoes and eclipses, but as public interest grew in things natural, the organization acquired a strong environmental flavor. This year more than 3,000 EarthCorps volunteers will head...
...shellbacks and their escapades. Their syndicated cartoon series, which debuted two years ago, appears daily on 130 TV stations and is the No. 3 animated show for children. Meanwhile, three videotapes based on the show rank among the Top Ten videos for children. Kids are, literally, so eager to get their hands on the Turtles that Playmates Toys Inc.'s action figures of the heroes were the third biggest-selling toy last Christmas (after Barbie and Nintendo). All told, some 300 Turtle merchandising spin-offs ranging from breakfast cereals to skateboards snapped up more than $100 million in sales last...
...unhappily discovering that even they are not immune. These days most of the plays they are offered are set in nursing homes, dramas so depressing they are instantly filed in the wastebasket. Nursing homes? For these two dynamos? They have done enough of those parts and are not eager for more. Tandy longs for a role in just about anything by Athol Fugard, and Cronyn would like to play Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. He is too old, he reluctantly admits, to take on another Shakespearean favorite, Richard...