Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more often than seemed wise. For one thing, Moscow had financed the Lumumba Institute seven miles outside Nairobi, providing two Russian instructors in the Leninist art of political action. Then Odinga negotiated a deal for a shipload of Soviet arms for Kenya, which the Russians seemed only too eager to provide absolutely free of charge. Odinga meanwhile hustled around making anti-Western speeches, and verbally sniping at the more moderate members of Kenyatta's Cabinet...
...stay for more than 72 hours needs a visa -something airlines frequently forget to tell Americans. Japan forbids all private persons from owning or carrying firearms. Though arrested persons may be held for as long as 30 days without charges, no other country's police force is so eager to hand Americans over to the nearest U.S. consul. A robbed tourist is so rare that he is likely to embarrass the entire country...
...break. Even with the artillery and air support that was lacking at critical moments in Viet An, troops so weary could hardly be expected to perform with skill in the grinding day-in-day-out war. The only sure cure for battle fatigue is a transfusion of well-rested, eager combat troops like the 6,800 U.S. marines currently patrolling Danang airbase. Though the marines last week were finally blooded in their first real firefight with the Communists, they have yet to tangle with Viet Cong main force...
...confers with him daily. In a report last week, he told the President that the U.S. economy is expanding faster than at any time in peacetime history, but that growth may slow after the steel settlement relieves buying pressure. All of this is likely to make Johnson less eager to use tighter credit and higher interest rates as weapons in the world money campaign...
...consumer class in Europe and elsewhere strongly wants such Yankee selling innovations as self-service, the checkout counter, prepackaged and frozen foods, big stores and plenty of parking space-and it tries to give them what they want in each of its 19 stores. Sometimes the buyers are so eager for American goods that they act a bit ridiculous. Last week's shoppers at the new Minimax snatched up cat food whether or not they had cats (the store finally had to assign a clerk to explain that the food was for cats; said one Italian shopper: "Then...