McGovern's 1972 running mate before Shriver

Usage examples of eagleton.

Shortly before taking over, Brantley himself traveled to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where a five-year-old boy who bore a certain physical resemblance to Eagleton was living.

How did this Eagleton know where Matt was, and how could he assume that he would come just like that?

But she recovered quickly, Eagleton was glad to see, and entered the room with poise.

And he was good at it, even if he didn’t get enough credit from Eagleton, a difficult man to work for.

The implications of a missing letter were chilling: Eagleton or Van or both were holding back.

He had been hear­ing about Operation Achilles for some time—you didn’t get to his level without having developed a scuttlebutt network that might have future strategic value—and he had weaseled and cajoled enough from Eagleton and others to have a pretty good sense of what was going on.

No one but Eagleton knew that it was somehow connected to the Neanderthal—at least no one still living.

In his snide way Van had implied that Eagleton knew about their ex­pedition.

Like any good detective, Eagleton knew that in solving a mystery you couldn’t go back too far.

But Eagleton needed his neurological expertise and his laboratory, so he had brought him into the loop—halfway.

Before Eagleton sat a perfect model of a brain, like a Jell-O concoction but made of silicone rubber.

The gesture reminded Eagleton of a spider on his back flailing its legs in the air.

Nobody shook hands, and Eagleton struggled to find the right voice—concerned, not commanding.

I had seen Buddy Eagleton in his red apron two aisles back, doing nothing and piling it up.

Blushing so deeply he was almost purple, Buddy Eagleton retired into the background again.