Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunting pointed out that while 57 percent of the male employees in the AEC have college degrees, only seven percent of the females do. "It's not easy for the Commission to promote women to high positions, no matter how eager it may be to do so," she said...
Indeed, from the perspective of the sixties, the whole period has an air of unreality; to students eager to advance civil rights through social action, the legalistic defense of established civil liberties seems a limited and rather foreign battle. They view the Wisconsin Senator and the climate he fomented and fed on as an-aberration which could not have lasted. And, in day of sit-ins, summer projects, and full page ads criticizing U.S. foreign policy placed in the Times by hundreds of academics, they would have trouble understanding the years in the early fifties. Then tenured professors thought long...
Last week, eager to face the world for a change, Ann hobbled out of an orthopedic hospital in the little Welsh-marches town of Oswestry; she was walking awkwardly on two canes, but far happier than she had been in years. In the past eight months, Orthopedic Surgeon David Lloyd Griffiths had pared her down to a mere six feet...
...that the reforming spirit of the council could lead to an accommodation with Communism. "We encounter Marxist infiltration at every step in our Christian lives," warns conservative French Novelist Michel de Saint Pierre. Liberal Catholics, by contrast, are convinced that the church must be "on the march"; they are eager to revive the worker-priests and "carry on a dialogue" with Marxism...
...Diego, Builder William S Chamness, finding only one buyer for his tract of $31,000 homes, rented all but three of the remaining 67- for barely enough to cover his mortgage in terest and taxes. In Detroit, eager home buyers last week snapped up new houses faster than contractors could complete them, and builders were sold out three months ahead of production. In Phoe nix, where a four-year building spree has produced a 20% vacancy rate in apartments, economists are predicting that it will take two years to absorb the oversupply. Yet in Cleveland, realty men talk happily...