Word: cager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said yesterday he thought what he saw of the building struck him as "fine" and that he is cager to see the finished project...
...Timothy S. Mayer '66 (who doesn't "think this sort of thing belongs in your newspaper") had been blessed with the foresight to omit the burlesque anecdotes from his repertoire--if he had been polite enough to discuss, say, his investments--Rich would have read her poems to the cager Signets, culture would have been disseminated, and poetry would have maintained its historical autonomy, its political immunity, its holy sanctity. In short, all would be well...
Joining Lewis on the first cager team were Penn's Dave Wohl and Corky Calhonn. Dartmouth's Paul Erland, and Princeton's Brian Taylor. Undefeated in League play, Penn had four of its starting five on the first two teams. Quaker reserve Phil Hankinson received honorable mention...
...breakfast with Singer, his wife, Rabbi Gold from Hillel House, and a friend who was cager to meet Singer, I realized why the author seemed so familiar. I.B. Singer looks like anybody's grandfather. His white, parchment-like skin stretched tightly over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence...
...cager to talk about the future. He has not won the Nobel Prize, but, after laughingly admitting that "it's always niceto get the cash," he said. "One doesn't think about these things." Superstitious, he would not talk about planned work, commenting, "You never talk about the things you're going to do. You might talk them away and never do them...