Word: eagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children's festival held in Harvard's Sanders Theater opened the day; 1000 schoolboys and girls from the Webster, Putnam, Thorndike, Allston, Shepard, Harvard and Washington schools crowded into the hall, where "they bent their eager gaze" upon a stage full of dignitaries...
...either wing invariably fizzled out because of a missed head shot off the cross pass through the box. To UConn, which really does deserve its number five national ranking, every such attack is an authentic goal scoring opportunity. Cross passes are met at the goal mouth by Connecticut heads eager to push the ball past an opposing goalie...
...spirit the soldier out to the West. On the other hand, particularly in the midst of an election campaign, the Carter Administration was in no position to hand him back. One way out of the impasse seemed to be up to the Soviets: if they were to prove eager to clear the air for this week's meeting between Secretary of State Edmund Muskie and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, for example, it was thought they might allow the hapless defector to go abroad-though not to the U.S. Otherwise, he was likely to remain in the embassy...
Neither of the two challengers' camps is any more eager to discuss publicly a possible transition. Mark Rosenker, a Reagan spokesman, declines comment on the work underway at the IOP, insisting that "right now we are only in the business of getting a man elected." Two weeks ago, in an interview with The New York Times, Edwin Meese, chief of staff of the Reagan campaign, mentioned the IOP's study as one of several outside research projects that will complement the campaign's own planning. Rosenker says that a three man group is heading a small staff of transition planners...
...particularly unpleasant feature of life is what the Chinese call qiang xing da pei, or forced distribution. It means simply that if one wants to buy a particular "item in a store, the clerk, who is eager for a productivity bonus, may insist on the purchase of an additional, slower-moving item as well...